Magi, a priestly caste in the East, constituting the “learned” class, as the Druids in the West: the custodiers of religion and the rites connected therewith, and who gave themselves up to the study of sciences of a recondite character, but with a human interest, such as astrology and magic, and who were held in great reverence by, and exercised a great influence over, the people.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Maggiore, Lago * Magi, the Three