Μάγος [ᾰ], ου, ὁ,
“Magian”, one of a Median tribe, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.101, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 15.3.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: hence, as belonging to this tribe,
__2 one of the priests and wise men in Persia who interpreted dreams, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.37, +others, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Fragmenta” 36, 3rd c.BC: Phoenix Iambographus 1.5, NT.Matt.2.1. ] NT+5th c.BC+]
__3 enchanter, wizard, especially in bad sense, impostor, charlatan, [[ 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 14, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 387, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1498 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 572e, NT.Act.13.6, Vett. Val. 74.17: also _feminine_, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Asin.” 4, “Anthologia Graeca” 5.15 (Marc. argument). ] NT+5th c.BC+]
__II μάγος, ον, as adjective, magical, μάγῳ τέχνῃ πράττειν τι [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 1.2; κεστοῦ φωνεῦσα μαγώτερα “Anthologia Graeca” 5.120 (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus)] Refs 1st c.BC+]. (Opers. maguš 'Magian'.)