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Sentence Examples
| Historian Grundy, like Thucydides, completely ignores the Greek and Magian worldviews. |
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| That is why, during the time of Darius, the war of independence was fought for the protection of Magian religion from the Zoroastrian religion. |
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| The murdered prince was, however, impersonated by Gaumata the Magian, who in March 522 seized the Achaemenid throne. |
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| He showed that similar horoscopes in the Magian or Chaldaean system had been described in ancient times for Roman emperors such as Augustus, Tiberius, and Hadrian. |
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| Darius, when he seized power in 522, had to fight a usurper, Gaumata the Magian, who pretended to be Bardiya, the son of Cyrus the Great and brother of the king Cambyses. |
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| That was until they banded together and retaliated against the magian hierarchy, launched military attacks against them, then migrated westward, out of Persia and Iran. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| The priestcraft of the East and West, of the Magian, Brahmin, Druid, and Inca, is expounded in the individual's private life. |
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| Let there be born a Magian from the infamous conjoining of Gellius and his mother, and he shall learn the Persian aruspicy. |
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| The caliph was assassinated on 27th Zilhaj, 644 by a Magian while he was leading the fajr prayer, stabbing him six times in the belly that proved fatal. |
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| To any meditative Magian rover, this serene Pacific, once beheld, must ever after be the sea of his adoption. |
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| In the Hindu, Egyptian, or Romanesque architecture, one feels the priest, nothing but the priest, whether he calls himself Brahmin, Magian, or Pope. |
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| Hither Hither hasten, nor ask again Where the Magian wine is found. |
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| An excellent work for the study of the Zend-Avesta, the magian religion, and the antiquities of the Medes and Persians. |
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| By the king's command, he also was made acquainted with the magian learning. |
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| So Dareios was persuaded, and he thrust with his danger and happened to hit the magian. |
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| Posidonius, the magian, had been to see him, and had completely reassured him. |
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| Description of Zoroaster's legislation, and of the magian national religion, according to the Zend-Avesta. |
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| He waved an adieu to the magian, and hastened back to the great hall. |
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| And alone, in the distance, the lonely man beheld his magian brother. |
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| If it was Smerdis the magian, she would find that he had none. |
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