The corpus record

βασκ-ᾰνία

baskania · ἡ

malign influence, witchery

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Where it lives

Machabaeorum IV 2 · 2.59/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
Meditations 2 · 0.69/10k
Phaedo 1 · 0.46/10k

What it meant — LSJ

malign influence, witchery

malign influence, witchery, Pl. Phd. 95b; β. φαυλότητος ἀμαυροῖ τὸ καλόν LXX Wi. 4.12; βασκανίας φάρμακον τὸ πήγανον Arist. Pr. 926b20.

2 malignity

malignity, ἀγνωμοσύνη καὶ β. D. 18.252; ὄχλος καὶ β. Id. 19.24: pl., LXX 4 Ma. 2.15.

3 jealousy

jealousy, ἤεισεν κρέσσονα βασκανίης Call. Epigr. 23, cf. Ph. 2.81, al.

In the wild

βασκανία · baskania Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 1.11.1 (DIORISIS sentence 42)
βασκανίας · baskanias Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 3.4.2 (DIORISIS sentence 246)
βασκανία · baskania Plato, Phaedo 95 (DIORISIS sentence 819)
βασκανία · baskania Septuaginta, Machabaeorum IV 1
βασκανίας · baskanias Septuaginta, Machabaeorum IV 2
βασκανία · baskania Septuaginta, Sapientia Salomonis 4

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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