Magi
plural noun
null the Magi, in the Bible, the astrologers who paid homage to the young child Jesus, traditionally assumed to be three in number and to be named Balthazar, Caspar, and Melchior.
Magian
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a word derived from
Magi.
magian
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a word derived from
magi.
Magiplural nounnull the Magi, in the Bible, the astrologers who paid homage to the young child Jesus, traditionally assumed to be three in number and to be named Balthazar, Caspar, and Melchior.
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They attempt to gain Prexaspes; he is to declare publicly that the Magian is the son of Cyrus.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Max Duncker
Now I give my vote to you, Darius, and go straight from this consultation to the Magian.'
From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Max Duncker
Phaedyme, the daughter of Otanes, had been the wife of Cambyses, and with the rest of the wives she had passed over to the Magian.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Max Duncker
The inscription of Darius speaks only "of the Magian Gaumata," of "his leading adherents."
From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Max Duncker
An election to the throne was not a matter of necessity after the fall of the Magian.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Max Duncker
One was Atossa, whom we have already mentioned as having been married to Cambyses, her brother, and as having been afterward taken by Smerdis the magian as one of his wives.
From Darius the Great Makers of History by Jacob Abbott
Night, which to the eye of the magian shows more clearly all that the bright day conceals, overspread with a wizard twilight the vast hollow of the heavens.
From AE in the Irish Theosophist by George William Russell
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 Jacob Abbott
A third was Phædyma, the daughter of Otanes, the lady who had been so instrumental, in connection with Atossa, in the discovery of the magian imposture.
From Darius the Great Makers of History by Jacob Abbott
His dream, in which he had seen a vision of Smerdis, with his head reaching to the heavens, referred, he had no doubt, to the magian Smerdis, and not to his brother.
From Darius the Great Makers of History by Jacob Abbott
