Μάγνης: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ητος, ὁ, <span class="title">Magnesian</span>, i.e. a dweller in Magnesia in Thessaly, <span class="bibl">Il.2.756</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">El.</span>705</span>, etc.; or in Magnesia in Lydia, <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.90</span>, etc.: —fem. Μάγνησσα <span class="bibl">Theoc.22.79</span>:—hence Μαγνησίη, ἡ, <span class="title">Magnesia</span> in Asia, <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.122</span>, al.; in Thessaly, <span class="bibl">Id.7.176</span>, al.:—Adj. Μαγνητικός, ή, όν, <span class="title">Magnesian</span>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>492</span>: fem. Μαγνῆτις, ιδος<span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span>, ἵπποι <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>2.45</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>1066</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b3">Μάγνης</b> (sc. <b class="b3">οἶνος</b>), ὁ, <span class="bibl">Hermipp.82</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">b</span> a throw of the dice, Hsch. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b3">Μαγνῆτις λίθος, ἡ</b>, <b class="b2">the magnet</b>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Fr.</span>567</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ion</span>533d</span>, <span class="bibl">Eub.77</span>, etc.: without <b class="b3">λίθος</b>, Sch.<span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>600a</span>; also ἡ Μαγνησίη λίθος <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Int.</span>21</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Ach.Tat.1.17</span>; ἡ Μάγνησσα <span class="bibl">Orph. <span class="title">L.</span>307</span>; ὁ Μάγνης λίθος <span class="bibl">Porph.<span class="title">Abst.</span>4.20</span>; ὁ M. alone, <span class="bibl">Alex.Aphr. <span class="title">Pr.</span>2.59</span>; M. ὁ πνέων <span class="title">PMag.Par.</span>1.2631; also ὁ Μαγνήτης λίθος Dsc. 5.130, <span class="bibl">Phlp.<span class="title">in Ph.</span>403.23</span>; ἡ Μαγνῆτις πέτρα Dsc.5.126. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b3">Μαγνῆτις λίθος</b>, also, <b class="b2">a mineral</b> resembling silver, prob. a kind of <b class="b2">talc</b>, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">Lap.</span>41</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> μαγνησία, ἡ, name of several ores and metallic amalgams, Zos.Alch.<span class="bibl">p.188</span> B., Maria ap.eund.p.192 B.</span>