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Μάγος [α^], ου, ὁ, Magian, one of a Median tribe, Hdt.1.101, Str. 15.3.1: hence, as belonging to this tribe,
2. one of the priests and wise men in Persia who interpreted dreams, Hdt.7.37, al., Arist.Fr. 36, Phoen.1.5, Ev.Matt.2.1.
3. enchanter, wizard, esp. in bad sense, impostor, charlatan, Heraclit.14, S.OT387, E.Or.1498 (lyr.), Pl.R.572e, Act.Ap.13.6, Vett. Val.74.17: also fem., Luc.Asin.4, AP 5.15 (Marc. Arg.).
II. μάγος, ον, as Adj., magical, “μάγψ τέχνῃ πράττειν τι” Philostr.VA1.2; “κεστοῦ φωνεῦσα μαγώτερα” AP5.120 (Phld.). (Opers. maguš 'Magian'.)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Euripides, Orestes, 1498
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.101
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.37
    • New Testament, Acts, 13.6
    • New Testament, Matthew, 2.1
    • Plato, Republic, 572e
    • Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 387
    • Strabo, Geography, 15.3.1
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 1.2
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