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μάγαδις

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μάγαδις μάγαδιος

Structure: μαγαδι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: A foreign word.

Sense

  1. the magadis

Declension

Third 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

  • μαγάδι λαλήσω μικρὸν ἅμα σοι καὶ μέγα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 80 1:4)
  • καὶ πάλιν ὁ μάγαδισ ἐν ταὐτῷ ὀξὺν καὶ βαρὺν φθόγγον ἐπιδείκνυται, ὡσ Ἀναξανδρίδησ ἐν Ὁπλομάχῳ φησίν μαγάδι λαλήσω μικρὸν ἅμα σοι καὶ μέγα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 3511)
  • "Ἀρτέμων δ’ ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ περὶ Διονυσιακοῦ Συστήματοσ Τιμόθεόν φησι τὸν Μιλήσιον παρά τοῖσ πολλοῖσ δόξαι πολυχορδοτέρῳ συστήματι χρήσασθαι τῇ μαγάδι διὸ καὶ παρὰ τοῖσ Λάκωσιν εὐθυνόμενον ὡσ παραφθείροι τὴν ἀρχαίαν μουσικήν, καὶ μέλλοντόσ τινοσ ἐκτέμνειν αὐτοῦ τὰσ περιττὰσ τῶν χορδῶν, δεῖξαι παρ’ αὐτοῖσ ὑπάρχοντα Ἀπολλωνίσκον πρὸσ τὴν αὑτοῦ σύνταξιν ἰσόχορδον λύραν ἔχοντα καὶ ἀφεθῆναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 39 1:6)
  • μετὰ ταῦτα εἰσῆλθον κέρασί τε οἱοίσ σημαίνουσιν αὐλοῦντεσ καὶ σάλπιγξιν ὠμοβοείαισ ῥυθμούσ τε καὶ οἱο͂ν μαγάδι σαλπίζοντεσ. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 3 38:2)

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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