The corpus record — Latin

magia

magia · f

the science of the

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Where it lives

Apologia 40 · 18.61/10k
De idolatria 3 · 4.35/10k
De Anima 6 · 2.52/10k
Ad Uxorem 1 · 2.41/10k
De Scorpiace 1 · 1.26/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 1 · 1.2/10k
Pro A. Cluentio 2 · 0.96/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.56/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

măgīa — Lewis & Short

măgīa, ae, f., = magei/a,

I the science of the Magi, magic, sorcery (post-class.), App. M. 3, 16, p. 201 fin.; id. Mag. p. 290, 23; 304, 24; id. M. 3, p. 136, 19; p. 137, 36; Prud. adv. Symm. 1, 89.

In the wild

magiam Cicero, Pro A. Cluentio 21
magiae Apuleius, Metamorphoses 3.19
magia Tertullian, De idolatria 9
Magiam Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 23.6.32
magia Tertullian, De Anima 57
magian Apuleius, Apologia 28

6 of 61 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. magia (scan p. 403; entry #6416).

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