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To: alt.magick From: "Asiya"Subject: Re: Magus / Maga Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 08:16:59 GMT "Sun Wu-K'ung" wrote in message news:ca6e731a.0210221430.219ad44f@posting.google.com... > "Alex Sumner" wrote in message news:<3db53842$0$19877$afc38c87@news.ukonline.co.uk>... > > "Asiya" wrote in message > > news:wF7t9.18062$Mb3.587216@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net... > > > "Ka" wrote in message > > > news:ap2gg6$irs$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk... > > > > > > > > *Is there a female version of "mugus", like..... Magess or > > > something? > > > > > > What about the word "magus" would make it inapplicable to a female? > > > > > "-us" masculina singula nominativa suffix est - ergo, "Magus" "Wise Man" > > est. Nescio si erat feminina versio, sed si erat ipsa, "Maga" erat. > > 'Maga' is correct. Ovid uses it to refer to Circe in his _Metamorpheses_. This is very interesting, thanks. But damn, "maga" doesn't have quite the same ring to it... Asiya
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