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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

  • καὶ εἰσεπορεύοντο οἱ ἐπαοιδοί, μάγοι, γαζαρηνοί, Χαλδαῖοι, καὶ τὸ ἐνύπνιον ἐγὼ εἶπα ἐνώπιον αὐτῶν, καὶ τὴν σύγκρισιν αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἐγνώρισάν μοι, (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 4:4)
  • καὶ νῦν εἰσῆλθον ἐνώπιόν μου οἱ σοφοί, μάγοι, γαζαρηνοί, ἵνα τὴν γραφὴν ταύτην ἀναγνῶσι καὶ τὴν σύγκρισιν αὐτῆσ γνωρίσωσί μοι, καὶ οὐκ ἠδυνήθησαν ἀναγγγεῖλαί μοι. (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 5:15)
  • , Ἀσσυρίων δὲ καὶ Ἀράβων οἱ ἐξηγηταὶ τῶν μύθων, Ἰνδῶν δὲ οἱ καλούμενοι Βραχμᾶνεσ, ἄνδρεσ ἀκριβῶσ φιλοσοφίᾳ σχολάζοντεσ, καὶ οἱ καλούμενοι δὲ μάγοι, γένοσ τοῦτο μαντικὸν καὶ θεοῖσ ἀνακείμενον παρά τε Πέρσαισ καὶ Πάρθοισ καὶ Βάκτροισ καὶ Χωρασμίοισ καὶ Ἀρείοισ καὶ Σάκαισ καὶ Μήδοισ καὶ παρὰ πολλοῖσ ἄλλοισ βαρβάροισ, ἐρρωμένοι τέ εἰσι καὶ πολυχρόνιοι διὰ τὸ μαγεύειν διαιτώμενοι καὶ αὐτοὶ ἀκριβέστερον. (Lucian, Macrobii, (no name) 4:2)
  • Γερμανικὸσ δ’ ἀλεκτρυόνοσ οὔτε φωνὴν οὔτ’ ὄψιν ὑπέμενεν οἱ δὲ Περσῶν μάγοι τοὺσ μῦσ ἀπεκτίννυσαν, ὡσ αὐτοί τε μισοῦντεσ καὶ τοῦ θεοῦ δυσχεραίνοντοσ τὸ ζῷον· (Plutarch, De invidia et odio, section 3 1:2)
  • ἐνταῦθα δὴ τῶν βαρβάρων τινὲσ μάγοι ὁρῶντεσ αὐτὸν παγκάκωσ διακείμενον ἔπεισαν ὡσ ἄξουσι τὴν ψυχὴν ἄνω τὴν Πυθιονίκησ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 68 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. a Zoroastrian priest

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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