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magus2

magus2 · m

In the masc., a Magian, a learned man and magician among the Persians: ei magos dixisse, quod genus sapientum et…

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Where it lives

Apologia 40 · 18.61/10k
Medicamina faciei femineae 1 · 16.31/10k
Divus Titus 2 · 13.44/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 23 16 · 10.89/10k
De idolatria 5 · 7.25/10k
Helius 1 · 6.97/10k
Ad Scapulam 1 · 6.7/10k
Epodon 2 · 6.65/10k
Didius Julianus 1 · 6.29/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 28 8 · 4.79/10k
Catilina 5 · 4.69/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 30 6 · 4.43/10k

Densest 12 of 115 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. măgus — Lewis & Short

măgus, i, m., and măga, ae, f., = ma/gos.

I In the masc., a Magian, a learned man and magician among the Persians: ei magos dixisse, quod genus sapientum et doctorum habebatur in Persis, Cic. Div. 1, 23, 46; 1, 41, 90; id. Leg. 2, 10, 26; id. N. D. 1, 16, 43 al.: Augur, schoenobates, medicus, magus, omnia novit, Juv. 3, 77; App. d. Dog. 1, 3, p. 186: nam si (quod ego apud plurimos lego), Persarum linguā magus est, qui nostrā sacerdos, etc., id. Mag. 25, p. 290, 20.—

II In the fem., a female magician, enchantress: cantusque artesque magarum, v. l. Ov. M. 7, 195 (al. leg. magorum): Circe maga famosissima, Aug. Civ. Dei, 18, 17.

2. măgus — Lewis & Short

măgus, a, um, adj.1. magus,

I magic, magical (poet.): artes, Ov. Am. 1, 8, 5: manus, id. Med. fac. 36: carmen, Sen. Herc. Oet. 467.

In the wild

Magorum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 22.8
magisque Celsus, De Medicina 2.3
Magus Tertullian, De idolatria 9
magisque Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes praef.p4
Magos Tertullian, Adversus Judaeos Liber 9
Mago Silius Italicus, Punica 9.229

6 of 498 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. magus (scan p. 403; entry #6413).

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