The corpus record — Latin

magice

magice · f

the magic art, magic, sorcery

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Apologia 9 · 4.19/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Metamorphoses 7 · 1.31/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Pharsalia 4 · 0.79/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Naturalis Historia 19 · 0.48/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.39/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

măgĭcē — Lewis & Short

măgĭcē, ēs, f., = magikh/ (sc. te/xnh),

I the magic art, magic, sorcery (post-Aug.): pariter utrasque artes effloruisse, medicinam dico magicenque, Plin. 30, 1, 2, § 10; 30, 1, 2, § 7: magices factio, id. 30, 1, 2, § 11.

In the wild

magica Lucan, Pharsalia 6.460
magicae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 29.4.p14
magicas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.8.p5
magicas Vergil, Aeneid 4.493
magicae Propertius, Elegiae 4.4.51
magicas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 27.8.p2

6 of 55 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.