trickery
trickery, esp. of magical arts, Pl. Lg. 908d; μαγγανεῖαι καὶ ἐπῳδαί ib. 933a; περίαπτα καὶ μ. Ph. 2.267, Gal. 11.792; τῆς Κίρκης ἡ μ. Them. Or. 26.330b, cf. Jul. Gal. 340a; μ. μαγειρικαί, of meretricious cookery, Ath. 1.9c.
The corpus record
μαγγᾰν-εία
magganeia · ἡ
trickery
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Where it lives
- Laws 2 · 0.19/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- μαγγανείαν · manganeian Plato, Laws 908
- μαγγανείαις · manganeiais Plato, Laws 933
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.