[Meaning] of sorcery.[1] "Everything was full of witchcraft being started, of [men] throwing themselves into wells and over cliffs."[2]
*farmakei/as: gohtei/as. pa/nta d' h)=n plh/rh a)rxome/nhs farmakei/as r(iptou/ntwn e(autou\s e)s ta\ fre/ata kai\ kata\ krhmnw=n.
[1] The headword is genitive singular of
farmakei/a (
phi 100), presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[2]
Polybius 38.16.7 (on central Greece at the time of the Roman conquest, 146 BCE). It is quoted more fully at
pi 1242, but there as well as here the participle
a)rxome/nhs, "being started", has replaced
parhllagme/nhs, "having become extraordinary".
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