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γόης , ητος, ὁ,
A.sorcerer, wizard, Phoronis 2, Hdt.2.33,4.105, Pl.R. 380d, Phld.Ir.p.29 W.; “γ. ἐπῳδὸς Λυδίας ἀπὸ χθονός” E.Ba.234, cf. Hipp.1038; prob. f.l. for βοῇσι Hdt.7.191.
2. juggler, cheat, “δεινὸς γ. καὶ φαρμακεὺς καὶ σοφιστής” Pl.Smp.203d; “δεινὸν καὶ γ. καὶ σοφιστὴν . . ὀνομάζων” D.18.276; “ἄπιστος γ. πονηρός” Id.19.109; “μάγος καὶ γ.” Aeschin.3.137: Comp. “γοητότερος” Ach.Tat.6.7 (s. v. l.). (Cf. Lith. žavēti 'incantare'.)
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (11):
    • Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, 137
    • Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, 109
    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 276
    • Euripides, Bacchae, 234
    • Euripides, Hippolytus, 1038
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.33
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.105
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.191
    • Plato, Republic, 380d
    • Plato, Symposium, 203d
    • Achilles Tatius, Leucippe et Clitophon, 6.7
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