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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

  • ὁ μὲν οὖν Γωβρύησ εἰσ σκοτεινὸν οἴκημα τῷ μάγῳ φεύγοντι συνεισπεσὼν καὶ γενόμενοσ ἐν διαπάλαισ ἐπιστάντα καὶ διαποροῦντα τὸν Δαρεῖον ἐκέλευσεν ὠθεῖν καὶ δι’ ἀμφοτέρων· (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 4 3:1)
  • καὶ ἢν μὲν φαίνηται ἔχων ὦτα, νόμιζε σεωυτὴν Σμέρδι τῷ Κύρου συνοικέειν, ἢν δὲ μὴ ἔχων, σὺ δὲ τῷ Μάγῳ Σμέρδι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 3, chapter 69 4:3)
  • καὶ αὐτοῦ τούτου εἵνεκεν ἥκω σπουδῇ ὡσ συστήσων ἐπὶ τῷ Μάγῳ θάνατον. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 3, chapter 71 3:2)
  • συμπλακέντοσ δὲ Γοβρύεω τῷ Μάγῳ ὁ Δαρεῖοσ ἐπεστεὼσ ἠπόρεε οἱᾶ ἐν σκότεϊ, προμηθεόμενοσ μὴ πλήξῃ τὸν Γοβρύην. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 3, chapter 78 5:1)
  • γάμουσ τε τοὺσ πρώτουσ ἐγάμεε Πέρσῃσι ὁ Δαρεῖοσ, Κύρου μὲν δύο θυγατέρασ Ἄτοσσάν τε καὶ Ἀρτυστώνην, τὴν μὲν Ἄτοσσαν προσυνοικήσασαν Καμβύσῃ τε τῷ ἀδελφεῷ καὶ αὖτισ τῷ Μάγῳ, τὴν δὲ Ἀρτυστώνην παρθένον· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 3, chapter 88 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. a Zoroastrian priest

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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