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μαγάς

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μαγάς

Structure: μαγ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. the bridge of the cithara

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μαγάς μαγᾱ́ μαγαί
Genitive μαγοῦ μαγαῖν μαγῶν
Dative μαγῇ μαγαῖν μαγαῖς
Accusative μαγήν μαγᾱ́ μαγᾱ́ς
Vocative μαγά μαγᾱ́ μαγαί

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

  • Κυρήνησ δὲ ἀποστάσησ Μάγασ Βερενίκησ υἱὸσ Πτολεμαίῳ τότε συνοικούσησ ἔτει πέμπτῳ μετὰ τὴν ἀπόστασιν εἷλε Κυρήνην. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 6 12:2)
  • Μάγασ δὲ ἀδελφὸσ ὁμομήτριοσ Πτολεμαίου παρὰ Βερενίκησ τῆσ μητρὸσ ἀξιωθεὶσ ἐπιτροπεύειν Κυρήνην ‐ ἐγεγόνει δὲ ἐκ Φιλίππου τῇ Βερενίκῃ Μακεδόνοσ μέν, ἄλλωσ δὲ ἀγνώστου καὶ ἑνὸσ τοῦ δήμου ‐ , τότε δὴ οὗτοσ ὁ Μάγασ ἀποστήσασ Πτολεμαίου Κυρηναίουσ ἤλαυνεν ἐπ’ Αἴγυπτον. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 7 2:4)
  • Μάγασ δὲ ἤδη γυναῖκα ἔχων Ἀπάμην Ἀντιόχου τοῦ Σελεύκου θυγατέρα, ἔπεισεν Ἀντίοχον παραβάντα ἃσ ὁ πατήρ οἱ Σέλευκοσ ἐποιήσατο συνθήκασ πρὸσ Πτολεμαῖον, ἐλαύνειν ἐπ’ Αἴγυπτον. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 7 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. the bridge of the cithara

Related

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

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