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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

  • ἀπεκρίθησαν οἱ Χαλδαῖοι ἐνώπιον τοῦ βασιλέωσ καὶ λέγουσιν. οὐκ ἔστιν ἄνθρωποσ ἐπὶ τῆσ ξηρᾶσ, ὅστισ τὸ ρῆμα τοῦ βασιλέωσ δυνήσεται γνωρίσαι, καθότι πᾶσ βασιλεὺσ μέγασ καὶ ἄρχων ρῆμα τοιοῦτον οὐκ ἐπερωτᾷ ἐπαοιδόν, μάγον καὶ Χαλδαῖον. (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 2:10)
  • ὑποσταίησ δὲ ἄν, εἰ καὶ μάγον ἢ μάντιν ὑποκρίνασθαι δέοι τῶν κλήρουσ πολυταλάντουσ καὶ ἀρχὰσ καὶ ἀθρόουσ τοὺσ πλούτουσ ὑπισχνουμένων καὶ γὰρ αὖ καὶ τούτουσ ὁρᾷσ εὖ φερομένουσ ἐν ταῖσ φιλίαισ καὶ πολλῶν ἀξιουμένουσ. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 27:5)
  • ἡσθεὶσ δὲ τοῖσ εἰρημένοισ ἐγὼ καὶ τὸν μάγον ἀσπασάμενοσ χαλεπῶσ μάλα διὰ τοῦ στομίου ἀνερπύσασ οὐκ οἶδ’ ὅπωσ ἐν Λεβαδείᾳ γίγνομαι. (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 22:6)
  • "ἀμηχανῶν δὲ ὅμωσ τῷ ἔρωτι μηνύει μοι τὸ πᾶν, ἐγὼ ὥσπερ εἰκὸσ ἦν, διδάσκαλον ὄντα, τὸν Ὑπερβόρεον ἐκεῖνον μάγον ἄγω παρ’ αὐτὸν ἐπὶ μναῖσ τέτταρσι μὲν τὸ παραυτίκα ‐ ἔδει γὰρ προτελέσαι τι εἰσ τὰσ θυσίασ ‐ ἑκκαίδεκα δέ, εἰ τύχοι τῆσ Χρυσίδοσ. (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 12:11)
  • ὦ πλοῦτε καὶ τυραννὶ καὶ τέχνη τέχνησ ὑπερφέρουσα τῷ πολυζήλῳ βίῳ, ὅσοσ παρ’ ὑμῖν ὁ φθόνοσ φυλάσσεται, εἰ τῆσδέ γ’ ἀρχῆσ οὕνεχ’, ἣν ἐμοὶ πόλισ δωρητόν, οὐκ αἰτητόν, εἰσεχείρισεν, ταύτησ Κρέων ὁ πιστόσ, οὑξ ἀρχῆσ φίλοσ, λάθρᾳ μ’ ὑπελθὼν ἐκβαλεῖν ἱμείρεται, ὑφεὶσ μάγον τοιόνδε μηχανορράφον, δόλιον ἀγύρτην, ὅστισ ἐν τοῖσ κέρδεσιν μόνον δέδορκε, τὴν τέχνην δ’ ἔφυ τυφλόσ. (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. a Zoroastrian priest

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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