The corpus record

ψῡχᾰγωγ-ός

psuchagogos

leading departed souls to the nether world

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Where it lives

Persians 1 · 1.96/10k

What it meant

ψῡχᾰγωγ-ός · psychagōg-os — LSJ

leading departed souls to the nether world

leading departed souls to the nether world, epith. of Hermes, Hsch.

II conjuring up the dead, necromancer

conjuring up the dead to question them, ψ. γόοι A. Pers. 687:—Subst., necromancer, E. Alc. 1128, Plu. Vind. 2.560f; Ψ., οἱ, name of a play by Aeschylus.

III kidnapper

kidnapper, Alexandrian word acc. to Phryn. PS p.127 B.

In the wild

ψυχαγωγοῖς · psychagōgois Aeschylus, Persians 686–687

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.

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