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μάγος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μάγος μάγου

Structure: μαγ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. (common, nonspecific) magician, and derogatorily sorcerer, trickster, conjurer, charlatan
  2. (common, specific) a Zoroastrian priest
  3. (hapax) name of one of the tribes of the Medes.

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὁ δ’ αὐτὸσ υἱὸν πενθοῦντι καὶ ἐν σκότῳ ἑαυτὸν καθείρξαντι προσελθὼν ἔλεγεν μάγοσ τε εἶναι καὶ δύνασθαι αὐτῷ ἀναγαγεῖν τοῦ παιδὸσ τὸ εἴδωλον, εἰ μόνον αὐτῷ τρεῖσ τινασ ἀνθρώπουσ ὀνομάσειε μηδένα πώποτε πεπενθηκότασ· (Lucian, (no name) 25:1)
  • ὁ δὲ μάγοσ ἐν τοσούτῳ δᾷδα καιομένην ἔχων οὐκέτ’ ἠρεμαίᾳ τῇ φωνῇ, παμμέγεθεσ δέ, ὡσ οἱο͂́σ τε ἦν, ἀνακραγὼν δαίμονάσ τε ὁμοῦ πάντασ ἐπεβοᾶτο καὶ Ποινὰσ καὶ Ἐρινύασ καὶ νυχίαν Ἑκάτην καὶ ἐπαινὴν Περσεφόνειαν, παραμιγνὺσ ἅμα βαρβαρικά τινα καὶ ἄσημα ὀνόματα καὶ πολυσύλλαβα. (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 9:7)
  • "ὁ δὲ μάγοσ οὐκ ἔφη παμρῖναι ἅπαντασ, ἀλλ’ ἕνα τινὰ τῶν ὀφέων τὸν νεώτατον χειροτονήσασ πρεσβευτὴν ἔπεμψεν ἐπὶ τὸν δράκοντα, καὶ μετὰ μικρὸν ἧκε κἀκεῖνοσ. (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 11:11)
  • ὥσπερ Ζωροάστρησ ὁ μάγοσ, ὃν πεντακισχιλίοισ ἔτεσι τῶν Τρωικῶν γεγονέναι πρεσβύτερον ἱστοροῦσιν. (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 46 2:1)
  • καὶ Μᾶγοσ Ἄραβοσ, Ἀρτάβησ τε Βάκτριοσ, σκληρᾶσ μέτοικοσ γῆσ, ἐκεῖ κατέφθιτο. (Aeschylus, Persians, episode14)

Synonyms

  1. a Zoroastrian priest

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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