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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

  • εἶναι δὲ ἐντὸσ τοῦ περιβόλου πρὸσ τῇ ἀναβάσει τῇ ἐπὶ τὸν τάφον φερούσῃ οἴκημα σμικρὸν τοῖσ Μάγοισ πεποιημένον, οἳ δὴ ἐφύλασσον τὸν Κύρου τάφον ἔτι ἀπὸ Καμβύσου τοῦ Κύρου, παῖσ παρὰ πατρὸσ ἐκδεχόμενοσ τὴν φυλακήν. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 6, chapter 29 7:1)
  • Αἰγύπτιοι δὲ τοὺσ ἱερέασ, οἳ τὴν αὐτὴν ἐπιστήμην εἶχον τοῖσ μάγοισ, τῶν θεῶν ἐπιμελούμενοι καὶ τὰ ξύμπαντα γιγνώσκοντεσ ὅπῃ τε καὶ ὅπωσ ἔχοι· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 12:3)
  • οἱ δὲ Μῆδοι παρῆσαν, ἃ μὲν οἱ μάγοι ἔφρασαν τοῖσ θεοῖσ ἐξελεῖν, ἀποδόντεσ τοῖσ μάγοισ, Κύρῳ δ’ ἐξῃρηκότεσ τὴν καλλίστην σκηνὴν καὶ τὴν Σουσίδα γυναῖκα, ἣ καλλίστη δὴ λέγεται ἐν τῇ Ἀσίᾳ γυνὴ γενέσθαι, καὶ μουσουργοὺσ δὲ δύο τὰσ κρατίστασ, δεύτερον δὲ Κυαξάρῃ τὰ δεύτερα, τοιαῦτα δὲ ἄλλα ὧν ἐδέοντο ἑαυτοῖσ ἐκπληρώσαντεσ, ὡσ μηδενὸσ ἐνδεόμενοι στρατεύωνται· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 6 13:2)
  • ἄγε δή, ἔφη, τὰ τῶν θεῶν ἀποδόντεσ τοῖσ μάγοισ καὶ ὅσα τῇ στρατιᾷ ἱκανὰ ἐξελόντεσ τἆλλα καλέσαντεσ τὸν Γωβρύαν δότε αὐτῷ· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 3 5:1)
  • διέγνω δὴ ὁ Πλάτων καὶ τοῖσ Μάγοισ συμμῖξαι· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, G, PLATWN 6:2)

Synonyms

  1. a Zoroastrian priest

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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