μυστικός, ή, όν,
connected with the mysteries, τέλος [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 387 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; μ. Ἴακχος the mystic chant Iacchus, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.65; χοῖροι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 764; αὔρα τις εἰσέπνευσε -ωτάτη [prev. author] “Ra.” 314; βίοτος μ. “IG” 3.172.6; μ. λόγοι 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Ir.” p.46 W.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ μ. the mysteries, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.28, 60 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ -κή (i.e. παράδοσις) mystical doctrine, [[ 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “in Platonis Parmenidem commentarii” p.779 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, compare [same work] “in Ti.” 3.12 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator; τὸ θεῖον καὶ μ. 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 213 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ μ., ={μύσται}, [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 17.1.29 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]: comparative -ώτερος [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Salt.” 59 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: superlative -ώτατος [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ra.” [same place], 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 111 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]. adverb - κῶς, δικάζειν [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 8.123 (perhaps μυστικῶν] Refs 2nd c.AD+] in cases relating to the mysteries); mystically, μ. καὶ τελεστικῶς [[ 2nd c.AD: Hermogenes Rhetor “περὶ ἰδεῶν” 1.6, compare 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 5.77, 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “de Antro Nympharum - Porphyrii Opuscula” 4. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__II private, secret, [[ 1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Epistulae ad Atticum” 4.2.7 (_comparative_)] Refs 1st c.BC+]. adverb - κῶς [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 10.3.9, LXX.3Mac.3.10, 2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 46.11 ] LXX+1st c.BC+]: comparative -ώτερον, scribere [[ 1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Epistulae ad Atticum” 6.4.3. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]