A festival observed by the Persians to commemorate the massacre
of the Magi. Smerdis usurped the throne on the death of Cambyses; but
seven Persians, conspiring together, slew Smerdis and his brother;
whereupon the people put all the Magi to the sword, and elected Darius,
son of Hystaspes, to the throne. (Greek, magosphonos, the
magi-slaughter.)
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