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Atossa had, of course, known her brother well, and was on that very account very closely secluded by the magian.

From Xerxes Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob

Hurry to sell old magian Lamps for new,      Though beauty's moonlike domes dissolve and pass: If all things change, ye would be changing too,      Crazed hearts that know not your desire, alas!

From The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence by Taylor, Rachel Annand

He raised an army and put it under the command of Otanes, who, it will be recollected, was one of the seven conspirators that combined to dethrone Smerdis the magian.

From Darius the Great Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob

The other magian who had been associated with him in the regency when Cambyses set out from Persia on his Egyptian campaign was his brother.

From Darius the Great Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob

He believed, he said, that the usurper was Smerdis the magian, whom he had left as one of the regents when he set out on his Egyptian campaign.

From Darius the Great Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob