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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 ἀπεκρίθη Δανιὴλ ἐνώπιον τοῦ βασιλέωσ καὶ εἶπε. τὸ μυστήριον, ὃ ὁ βασιλεὺσ ἐπερωτᾷ, οὐκ ἔστι σοφῶν, μάγων, ἐπαοιδῶν, γαζαρηνῶν ἀναγγεῖλαι τῷ βαασιλεῖ, (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 2:27)
  • ἔστιν ἀνὴρ ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ σου, ἐν ᾧ πνεῦμα Θεοῦ, καὶ ἐν ταῖσ ἡμέραισ τοῦ πατρόσ σου γρηγόρησισ καὶ σύνεσισ εὑρέθη ἐν αὐτῷ, καὶ ὁ βασιλεὺσ Ναβουχοδονόσορ ὁ πατήρ σου ἄρχοντα ἐπαοιδῶν, μάγων, Χαλδαίων, γαζαρηνῶν κατέστησεν αὐτόν, (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 5:11)
  • ἤδη δὲ πώγωνοσ ὁ Ἀλέξανδροσ πιμπλάμενοσ καὶ τοῦ Τυανέωσ ἐκείνου ἀποθανόντοσ ἐν ἀπορίᾳ καθεστώσ, ἀπηνθηκυίασ ἅμα τῆσ ὡρ́ασ, ἀφ’ ἧσ τρέφεσθαι ἐδύνατο, οὐκέτι μικρὸν οὐδὲν ἐπενόει, ἀλλὰ κοινωνήσασ Βυζαντίῳ τινὶ χορογράφῳ τῶν καθιέντων εἰσ τοὺσ ἀγῶνασ, πολὺ καταρατοτέρῳ τὴν φύσιν ‐ Κοκκωνᾶσ δέ, οἶμαι, ἐπεκαλεῖτο ‐ περιῄεσαν γοητεύοντεσ καὶ μαγγανεύοντεσ καὶ τοὺσ παχεῖσ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ‐ οὕτωσ γὰρ αὐτοὶ τῇ πατρίῳ τῶν μάγων φωνῇ τοὺσ πολλοὺσ ὀνομάζουσιν ‐ ἀποκείροντεσ. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 6:1)
  • εἶναι δοκοίημεν, καὶ μάλιστα σοῦ ἐν οἷσ κατὰ μάγων συνέγραψασ, καλλίστοισ τε ἅμα καὶ ὠφελιμωτάτοισ συγγράμμασιν καὶ δυναμένοισ σωφρονίζειν τοὺσ ἐντυγχάνοντασ, ἱκανὰ παραθεμένου καὶ πολλῷ τούτων πλείονα. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 21:12)
  • καὶ μοί ποτε διαγρυπνοῦντι τούτων ἕνεκα ἔδοξεν εἰσ Βαβυλῶνα ἐλθόντα δεηθῆναί τινοσ τῶν μάγων τῶν Ζωροάστρου μαθητῶν καὶ διαδόχων· (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 6:2)

Synonyms

  1. a Zoroastrian priest

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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