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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

  • ἀλλὰ καὶ μάγου τινὸσ εἶναι λέγοντοσ καὶ ἐπῳδὰσ ἔχειν ἰσχυράσ, ὡσ ὑπ’ αὐτῶν ἅπαντασ ἀναπεισθῆναι παρέχειν αὐτῷ ὁπόσα βούλεται, Μὴ θαύμαζε, ἔφη· (Lucian, (no name) 23:1)
  • "ἐπίστευον γὰρ ἄν, εἲ γε εἶδον αὐτά, νῦν δὲ συγγνώμη, οἶμαι, εἰ μὴ τὰ ὅμοια ὑμῖν ὀξυδορκεῖν ἔχω πλὴν ἀλλ’ οἶδα γὰρ τὴν Χρυσίδα ἣν λέγεισ, ἐραστὴν γυναῖκα καὶ πρόχειρον, οὐχ ὁρῶ δὲ τίνοσ ἕνεκα ἐδεήθητε ἐπ’ αὐτὴν τοῦ πηλίνου πρεσβευτοῦ καὶ μάγου τοῦ ἐξ Ὑπερβορέων καὶ Σελήνησ αὐτῆσ, ἣν εἴκοσι δραχμῶν ἀγαγεῖν εἰσ Ὑπερβορέουσ δυνατὸν ἦν. (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 13:2)
  • "ἄλλωσ τε καὶ αὐτοῦ θαυμάζω τοῦ μάγου, εἰ δυνάμενοσ αὐτὸσ ἐρᾶσθαι πρὸσ τῶν πλουσιωτάτων γυναικῶν καὶ τάλαντα ὅλα παρ’ αὐτῶν λαμβάνειν, ὁ δὲ τεττάρων μνῶν πάνυ σμικρολόγοσ ὢν ^ Γλαυκίαν ἐπέραστον ἐργάζεται. (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 13:4)
  • τοσοῦτον χρόνον φυλαχθεὶσ κατελύθη ὑπὸ τοῦ τελευταίου Πτολεμαίου τοῦ καὶ τὸν Γαβινιακὸν συστησαμένου πόλεμον, οὐκ ἀνδρὸσ γενομένου ἀλλ’ αὐλητοῦ καὶ μάγου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 37 2:1)
  • ἄνευ γὰρ δὴ Μάγου οὔ σφι νόμοσ ἐστὶ θυσίασ ποιέεσθαι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 132 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. a Zoroastrian priest

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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