βάσκ-ᾰνος, ὁ,
one who bewitches, sorcerer, as a term of abuse, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.209, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Περικειρομένη” 279, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 14.2.7; β. καὶ φθοροποιός 5th c.AD(?): Stephanus Byzantius see at {Θίβα}. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 slanderer, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.132, 2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 358.5. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II adjective βάσκανος, ον, slanderous, malicious, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 103, “Pl.” 571; ὁ συκοφάντης πανταχόθεν βάσκανον 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.242, compare 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 14.1.22; δύσκολος καὶ β. 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Fabius Maximus” 26; β. πρᾶγμα.. ποιοῦντες 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.317 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; β. ἔσσ᾽, Ἀΐδα[[ Erinna 6.3; κώμων β. ἐστι λίθος “Anthologia Graeca” 9.756 (1st c.AD: Aemilianus Epigrammaticus); μ᾽ ὁ β. ἥρπασε δαίμων “epigram Gr.” 345 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; frequently in sepulchral inscriptions, [[ “IG” 14.1362, etc.] Refs]: superlative -ώτατος[[ “Comica Adespota” 359 ] Refs]. adverb -νως[[ 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 11.4.9, 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “Vita Pythagorae - Porphyrii Opuscula” 53. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II.2 β. ὀφθαλμός evil eye, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.680c, compare 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 1.15. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]