A.slaughterer, butcher (meat-salesman), and cook (these functions being freq. combined in one person), Pl.Euthd.301d, Lg.849d, Babr.51.8, al., Ath.14.659csq., Plu.2.175d, D.Chr.4.44, Max.Tyr.25.2: hence, Ἅιδου μ., of Polyphemus, E.Cyc.397; public cook, παρὰ τῶν μαγείρων, opp. π. τῶν ἰδιωτῶν, Ph.Bel.86.38, cf. Alex.257, Men.272, Sam. 68; butcher, meat-salesman, Alex.98.23, Machoap.Ath.6.243f, Aesop. 301; λόγος μαγείρου butcher's bill, POxy.108v (ii/iii A.D.), cf. PRyl. 228 intr. (i A. D.); μ. ὁ κατ᾽ οἶκον, οἱ ἐν ἀγορᾷ μ., Artem.3.56, cf. Arr.Epict.3.19.5, 3.26.21, PFlor.166 (iii A. D.); “περὶ μαγείρου τοῦ ἀποδράντος” PSI4.329 (iii B. C.); officiating at sacrifices, Athenio 1.40; “μ. τὸ γ́” IG5(1).97.26 (i A.D.); acting as waiter, Matro Conv.11,46, al.; not in Hom., but mentioned in Batr.40, Hdt.4.71,6.60, S.Fr. [1122], Ar.Ra.517, al., freq. in Com.; opp. ὀψοποιός, Dionys.Com. 2.9; but = ὀψοποιός, Alex.149.14; “ὅσον μαγείρου διαφέρει μάγειρος οὐκ οἶσθ᾽” Nicom.Com.1.6; μάγειρος cook for fish and meat, opp. οἰνοχόος and σιτοποιός (baker), Ph.1.390 (pl.).
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μάγοιρος (s. v. l.) Philox. ap. Et.Gud. in Greg.Cor.p.606 S.:—