Μάγνης: Difference between revisions

|Definition=-ητος, ὁ, [[Magnesian]], i.e. a [[dweller in Magnesia]] in [[Thessaly]], Il.2.756, S.El.705, etc.; or in [[Magnesia]] in [[Lydia]], Hdt.3.90, etc.: —fem. [[Μάγνησσα]] Theoc.22.79:—hence [[Μαγνησίη]], ἡ, [[Magnesia]] in [[Asia]], Hdt.3.122, al.; in [[Thessaly]], Id.7.176, al.:—Adj. [[Μαγνητικός]], Μαγνητική, Μαγνητικόν, [[Magnesian]], A.Pers.492: fem. [[Μαγνῆτις]], -ιδος, ἵπποι Pi.P.2.45, cf. S.Fr.1066.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[Μάγνης]] (''[[sc.]]'' [[οἶνος]]), ὁ, Hermipp.82.<br><span class="bld">b</span> a [[throw]] of the [[dice]], [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[Μαγνῆτις λίθος]], ἡ, the [[magnet]], E.Fr.567, cf. Pl.Ion533d, Eub.77, etc.: without [[λίθος]], Sch.Pl.R.600a; also ἡ [[Μαγνησίη λίθος]] Hp.Int.21, cf. Ach.Tat.1.17; ἡ [[Μάγνησσα]] Orph. L.307; ὁ [[Μάγνης λίθος]] Porph.Abst.4.20; ὁ [[Μάγνης]] alone, Alex.Aphr. Pr.2.59; Μάγνης ὁ [[πνέων]] PMag.Par.1.2631; also ὁ [[Μαγνήτης λίθος]] Dsc. 5.130, Phlp.in Ph.403.23; ἡ [[Μαγνῆτις πέτρα]] Dsc.5.126.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[Μαγνῆτις λίθος]], also, a [[mineral]] resembling [[silver]], prob. a kind of [[talc]], Thphr.Lap.41.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[μαγνησία]], ἡ, name of several [[ore]]s and [[metallic]] [[amalgam]]s, Zos.Alch.p.188 B., Maria ap.eund.p.192 B.