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The Queen Atossa, the daughter of Cyrus, who has already been mentioned as the wife of Cambyses and of Smerdis the magian, was one of the wives of Darius.

From Darius the Great Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob

Gobryas was foremost; he seized the wretched fugitive by the waist, and struggled to hold him, while the magian struggled to get free.

From Darius the Great Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob

Nothing can be more hopelessly vulgar, more unlike the majestic development of a system of grandly unintelligible conclusions from sublimely inconceivable premisses such as delights the magian heart.

From On the Method of Zadig by Huxley, Thomas Henry

Think you we might find walls pictured by Merlin the magian if we but climb the steep?

From The Flute of the Gods by Ryan, Marah Ellis

Two rival powers the magian faith inspire, Primeval Darkness and immortal Fire; Evil and good in these contending rise, And each by turns the sovereign of the skies.

From The Columbiad by Barlow, Joel