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μ1ΜάbyHomer uses this as having the status of a syllable. Sometimes however he uses nai/ instead of ma/, as in "yea by this scepter," when [someone] swears. But when [someone] makes a denial on …highshort
μ2Μαγγάναwine-cask[Note] that Italians call the wine-container made of wood a magga/na. See under gau=los.highshort
μ3Μαγγανευτήςimposter[Meaning] one who mixes things of all kinds with a view to quackery.highshort
μ4Μαγγανείαtrickery[Meaning] sorcery. "He fell into a grievous disease as a result of trickery and punished many who had been arrested for this." Procopius [writes]: "and she had constrained her husband with many kinds of …highshort
μ5Μάγγανονpotion, philtre[Meaning] something unexpected. Sorcery [gohtei/a] is also called magganei/a. The general "questioned the servants about the potions and demanded of the magi to know the evidence for their prediction."highshort
μ6ΜαγάςbridgeA raised square board, receiving into itself the strings of the kithara, and producing a sound. The kabale of the kithara and the lyre, the [part] supporting the strings. It is also a part …highshort
μ7ΜαγδαληνήMagdalene, woman of MagdalaFrom a place [of that name].highshort
μ8Μαγιέστερo master[Meaning] o teacher.highshort
μ9ΜαγείαmagicIt is an invocation of beneficent spirits for the production of something good; like the oracles of Apollonius of Tyana. [sc. By contrast] sorcery [gohtei/a] is an invocation of maleficent spirits which takes place …highmedium
μ10Μάγειροςcook[Cook] and cook-shop [mageirei=on]. [sc. A cook is] one who distributes barley-cakes [ma/zas].highshort
μ11Μαγῆαwiper[Meaning] that which wipes [something] off. "[...] and the wiper sponge lying under a sturdy knife."highshort
μ12Μὰ γῆν μὰ παγίδας μὰ νεφέλας μὰ δίκτυαby earth (and) by snares (and) by clouds (and) by netsThus they used to swear by random things, [for example] by springs, by rivers. Aristophanes in Birds [sc. illustrates this].highshort
μ13Μαγικήmagic, Magian [lore]Medes and Persians discovered this. It differs from goeteia [sorcery] and pharmakeia [witchcraft] itself.highshort
μ14Μαγίςlump, cake, trough[Meaning a] knife. Aslo [sc. attested is] ma/geiros ["butcher/cook"], [meaning] he who divides up the barley-cakes.highshort
μ15Μαγὶς ἄρτουlump of breadLike a piece of bread or a morsel or [a loaf] baked in the ashes.highshort
μ16Μαγίστερmagister, master[Meaning o] teacher. "He also proposed Theodore, a man honored and respected among Romans in his magisterial office." In his magisterial office.highshort
μ17Μαγιστριανόςmagistrianus, agentA military officer. "Uranius the revered magistrianus has returned the scriptures to the bishop."highshort
μ18ΜάγκινονMancinusA name. "And Mancinus they condemned to be handed over to the Nomantai." Also [sc. attested are] ma/gkuy ["baker"] and magkupei=on ["bakery"].highshort
μ19ΜαγκίπατοςfreedmanAmong Romans [this means] one who has been manumitted.highshort
μ20ΜάγνηςMagnes[Magnes,] of the city of Ikarion; Attic or Athenian; comic poet. As a young man he overlaps in time with the aged Epicharmus. He composed 9 comedies, and won 2 victories. This man was …highmedium
μ21ΜάγνηςMagnes[Magnes], a man from Smyrna, beautiful in appearance -- none more so -- and expert in both poetry and music; he also kept his body appropriately adorned, clothed in purple and wearing his hair …highmedium
μ22ΜαγνησίαMagnesiaA place [of that name].highshort
μ23ΜαγνῆτιςMagnesian, magneticThere is a certain stone so-called, which has a natural power to draw iron to itself. In Egyptian Alexandria in the Serapeion there was a mechanism of deceit and wickedness of this kind: having …highmedium
μ24Μαγνητῶν κακάMagnesians' evils"And I have nothing that I can say worthily about him, whether the name I apply to them is the Magnesians' evils, or the Termerian [evil], or simply the entirety of tragedy togther with …highshort
μ25Μάγοςmagus, magician, sorcererThey used to call magi those who surrounded themselves with false appearances. From this they also used to name sorcerers magi. Sophocles [writes]: "suborning such a plotting magician."highshort
μ26Μαγώτεραmore magicallyMeaning more enchantingly. In the Epigrams: "but [Philaenion is] more curly-haired than parsley and more tender-skinned than down and more magically-speaking than the cestus [sc. of Aphrodite]."highshort
μ27ΜαγῶνοςMagon's, Mago's[no gloss]highshort
μ28ΜάγοιmagiAmong Persians [sc. this is a term for] the philosophers and god-lovers; Zoroaster began them, and after him in succession the likes of Ostanes and Astrampsychus [and ...].highshort
μ29ΜαγώγMagogA Persian. [Note] that magic and astrology began with Magousaeans. For the Persians are named Magog by their countrymen. And Magousaeans [are] the same.highshort
μ30Μάδδανbarley-cake[ma/dda means the same as] ma/za, [i.e.] nourishment. The Megarians [say it] this way with two deltas.highshort