1. săgăna — Lewis & Short
săgăna, ae, f., acc. to
Prisc. p. 622, = saga,I a female diviner or soothsayer; a wise woman, witch; but occurs only as a nom. prop. of a witch, Hor. Epod. 5, 25; id. S. 1, 8, 25 and 48.
The corpus record — Latin
Sagana
Sagana · f
a female diviner
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Where it lives
- Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
- Satyrarum libri 3 · 2.11/10k
What it meant
2. sagana — Walde–Hofmann
sagana, -ae f. „Zauberin“ (seit Prisc. [= saga Gl. ds.], vgl. Sagana Hor. Heraeus Kl Schr. 16): entl. aus einem gr. *oaydvn; zur Bed. vgl. gr. odxvac „Arzt“. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. sagana, p. 1369]
In the wild
- Sagana Horace, Satyrarum libri 1.8.41
- Saganae Horace, Satyrarum libri 1.8.48
- Sagana Horace, Epodon 5.25
- Sagana Horace, Satyrarum libri 1.8.25
Where it came from
- Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. sagana (scan p. 1369; entry #2368).
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