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The corpus record — Latin

magicus

magicus · adj

of

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

Where it lives

  • Apologia 13 · 6.05/10k
  • Elegiae 6 · 4.86/10k
  • Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
  • Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
  • Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
  • Contra Symmachum 2 · 1.66/10k
  • De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
  • Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
  • Argonautica 5 · 1.35/10k
  • Elegiae 3 · 1.19/10k
  • Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
  • Hercules Oetaeus 1 · 0.89/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

măgĭcus — Lewis & Short

măgĭcus, a, um, adj., = magiko/s,

I of or belonging to magic, magic, magical (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): artes, Verg. A. 4, 493: magicis auxiliis uti, Tib. 1, 8, 24: arma movere, Ov. M. 5, 197: superstitiones, Tac. A. 12, 59: vanitates, Plin. 30, 1, 1, § 1: herbae, id. 24, 17, 99, § 156: aquae, Prop. 4, 1, 102 (5, 1, 106): di magici, that were invoked by incantations (as Pluto, Hecate, Proserpine), Tib. 1, 2, 62; Luc. 6, 577: linguae, i. e. hieroglyphics, id. 3, 222; but lingua, skilled in incantations, Ov. M. 7, 330; Luc. 3, 224: cantus, Juv. 6, 610: magicae resonant ubi Memnone chordae, mysterious, id. 15, 5.

In the wild

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.