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ψυχαγωγός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ψυχαγωγός ψυχαγωγόν

Structure: ψυχαγωγ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. leading souls to the nether world
  2. evoking souls, evoking the dead, a necromancer, psychagogue

Examples

  • τοῦτο τὸ ἄγοσ οὐκ ἐξεγένετο ἀποφυγεῖν Παυσανίᾳ, καθάρσια παντοῖα καὶ ἱκεσίασ δεξαμένῳ Διὸσ Φυξίου καὶ δὴ ἐσ Φιγαλίαν ἐλθόντι τὴν Ἀρκάδων παρὰ τοὺσ ψυχαγωγούσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 17 15:1)

Synonyms

  1. leading souls to the nether world

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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