In the Graeco-Roman world, practitioners of <answer>magi</answer>c were known as <answer>magi</answer> (singular magus), a "foreign" title of Persian priests. Apuleius, defending himself against accusations of casting <answer>magi</answer>c spells, defined the <answer>magi</answer>cian as "in popular tradition (more vulgari)... someone who, because of his community of speech with the immortal gods, has an incredible power of spells (vi cantaminum) for everything he wishes to." Pliny the Elder offers a thoroughly skeptical "History of <answer>magi</answer>cal arts" from their supposed Persian origins to Nero's vast and futile expenditure on research into <answer>magi</answer>cal practices in an attempt to control the gods. Philostratus takes pains to point out that the celebrated Apollonius of Tyana was definitely not a magus, "despite his special knowledge of the future, his miraculous cures, and his ability to vanish into thin air".
What word was used by the Romans for practitioners of magic?
magi