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Headword:
Goêteia
Adler number: gamma,365
Translated headword: sorcery, wizardry
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] magic.
Sorcery [
gohtei/a] and magic [
magei/a] and witchcraft [
farmakei/a] differ; Medes and Persians discovered them. So magic is of course invocation of beneficent spirits for the production of something good, like the oracles of Apollonius of
Tyana.[1] But sorcery [refers] to raising a dead person by invocation, whence [the word] is derived from the wailing [
go/oi] and lamentations which are made at burials. But [the word] witchcraft [is used] when some death-dealing concoction is given as a potion by mouth to someone.[2]
Magic and astrology began with Magousaeans, for the Persians are called Magog by their countrymen.
Also [sc. attested is] Magouseans, the same people.[3]
lso [sc. attested is the related verb]
gohteu/w ["I bewitch"]; [used] with an accusative.
Goêteia: mageia. goêteia kai mageia kai pharmakeia diapherousin: haper epheuron Mêdoi kai Persai. mageia men oun estin epiklêsis daimonôn agathopoiôn dêthen pros agathou tinos sustasin, hôsper ta tou Apollôniou tou Tuaneôs thespismata. goêteia de epi tôi anagein nekron di' epiklêseôs, hothen eirêtai apo tôn goôn kai tôn thrênôn tôn peri tous taphous ginomenôn. pharmakeia de, hotan dia tinos skeuasias thanatêphorou pros philtron dothêi tini dia stomatos. mageia de kai astrologia apo Magousaiôn êrxato: hoi gar toi Persai Magôg hupo tôn enchôriôn onomazontai. kai Magousaioi, hoi autoi. kai Goêteuô: aitiatikêi.
Notes:
See also
gamma 365.
On magic in the ancient world see generally OCD(4) s.v.
[1] On Apollonius of
Tyana see
alpha 3420; on magic,
mu 9 and
mu 13.
[2] George the Monk,
Chronicon 1.74.10-20. For pharmakeia see
phi 100.
[3] George the Monk,
Chronicon 1.96.3-5. This section was copied to
alpha 4257; see also
mu 29,
pi 1367.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 3 July 2002@01:40:08.
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