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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 ἐν παντὶ ρήματι σοφίασ καὶ ἐπιστήμησ, ὧν ἐζήτησε παρ’ αὐτῶν ὁ βασιλεύσ, εὗρεν αὐτοὺσ δεκαπλασίονασ παρὰ πάντασ τοὺσ ἐπαοιδοὺσ καὶ τοὺσ μάγουσ τοὺσ ὄντασ ἐν πάσῃ τῇ βασιλείᾳ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 1:20)
  • καὶ εἶπεν ὁ βασιλεὺσ καλέσαι τοὺσ ἐπαοιδοὺσ καὶ τοὺσ μάγουσ καὶ τοὺσ φαρμακοὺσ καὶ τοὺσ Χαλδαίουσ τοῦ ἀναγγεῖλαι τῷ βασιλεῖ τὰ ἐνύπνια αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἦλθαν καὶ ἔστησαν ἐνώπιον τοῦ βασιλέωσ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 2:2)
  • καὶ ἐβόησεν ὁ βασιλεὺσ ἐν ἰσχύϊ τοῦ εἰσαγαγεῖν μάγουσ, Χαλδαίουσ, γαζαρηνοὺσ καὶ εἶπε τοῖσ σοφοῖσ Βαβυλῶνοσ. ὃσ ἂν ἀναγνῷ τὴν γραφὴν ταύτην καὶ τὴν σύγκρισιν γνωρίσῃ μοι, πορφύραν ἐνδύσεται, καὶ ὁ μανιάκησ ὁ χρυσοῦσ ἐπὶ τὸν τράχηλον αὐτοῦ, καὶ τρίτοσ ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ μου ἄρξει. (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 5:7)
  • μετὰ δ’ οὖν τοὺσ Βραχμᾶνασ εἰσ Αἰθιοπίαν εὐθύσ, εἶτα εἰσ Αἴγυπτον κατέβην, καὶ ξυγγενομένη τοῖσ ἱερεῦσιν καὶ προφήταισ αὐτῶν καὶ τὰ θεῖα παιδεύσασα ἐσ Βαβυλῶνα ἀπῆρα Χαλδαίουσ καὶ μάγουσ μυήσουσα, εἶτα εἰσ Σκυθίαν ἐκεῖθεν, εἶτα εἰσ Θρᾴκην, ἔνθα μοι Εὔμολπόσ τε καὶ Ὀρφεὺσ συνεγενέσθην, οὓσ καὶ προαποστείλασα ἐσ τὴν Ἑλλάδα, τὸν μὲν ὡσ τελέσειεν αὐτούσ, τὸν Εὔμολπον ‐ ἐμεμαθήκει γὰρ τὰ θεῖα παρ’ ἡμῶν ἅπαντα ‐ τὸν δὲ ὡσ ἐπᾴδων προσβιβάζοι τῇ μουσικῇ, κατὰ πόδασ εὐθὺσ εἱπόμην. (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 8:1)
  • Δαρεῖοσ δὲ ὁ τοὺσ μάγουσ ἀνελὼν ἐπιγεγραμμένον εἶχεν ἐπὶ τοῦ μνήματοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 45 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. a Zoroastrian priest

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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