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μαγγάνευμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: μαγγάνευμα μαγγάνευματος

Structure: μαγγανευματ (Stem)

Etym.: from magganeu/w

Sense

  1. a piece of jugglery;, juggleries, deceptions

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

  • ἐὰν δέ γε οἶμαι φύσιν ἱκανὴν γένηται ἔχων ἀνήρ, πάντα ταῦτα ἀποσεισάμενοσ καὶ διαρρήξασ καὶ διαφυγών, καταπατήσασ τὰ ἡμέτερα γράμματα καὶ μαγγανεύματα καὶ ἐπῳδὰσ καὶ νόμουσ τοὺσ παρὰ φύσιν ἅπαντασ, ἐπαναστὰσ ἀνεφάνη δεσπότησ ἡμέτεροσ ὁ δοῦλοσ, καὶ ἐνταῦθα ἐξέλαμψεν τὸ τῆσ φύσεωσ δίκαιον. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 225:1)
  • μὴ δεῖν ἐπιχειρεῖν τοιοῦτο δρᾶν μηδὲ καθάπερ παῖδασ τοὺσ πολλοὺσ τῶν ἀνθρώπων δειμαίνοντασ φοβεῖν, μηδ’ αὖ τὸν νομοθέτην τε καὶ τὸν δικαστὴν ἀναγκάζειν ἐξιᾶσθαι τῶν ἀνθρώπων τοὺσ τοιούτουσ φόβουσ, ὡσ πρῶτον μὲν τὸν ἐπιχειροῦντα φαρμάττειν οὐκ εἰδότα τί δρᾷ, τά τε κατὰ σώματα, ἐὰν μὴ τυγχάνῃ ἐπιστήμων ὢν ἰατρικῆσ, τά τε αὖ περὶ τὰ μαγγανεύματα, ἐὰν μὴ μάντισ ἢ τερατοσκόποσ ὢν τυγχάνῃ. (Plato, Laws, book 11 135:1)

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

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