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Mago the Carthaginian, says Aristotle, crossed the Great Desert twice without having anything to drink. Magophonia A festival observed by the Persians to commemorate the massacre of the Magi. Smerdis usurped the throne on the death of Cambyses; but seven Persians, conspiring together, slew Smerdis and his brother; whereupon the people put all the Magi to the sword, and elected Darius, son of Hystaspes, to the throne. (Greek, magosphonos, the magi-slaughter.) Magot (French). Money, or rather a mass of secreted money; a corruption of imago, the image and
superscription of coined money. Là il vola de même, revint à Paris avec un bon magot.- La Gazette Noire, 1784, p. 270. Magpie A contraction of magotpie, or magata-pie. Mag is generally thought to be a contraction of Margaret; thus
we have Robin red-breast, Tom-tit, Philip- i.e. a sparrow, etc. Augurs and understood relations haveMagpie. Here is an old Scotch rhyme: One's sorrow, two's mirth, |
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