He attached himself to Anaxarchus, and joined her in the expedition of Alexander the Great, and became acquainted with the philosophy of the magi and the Indian Gymnosophists.
"A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations"
Joseph Mazzini Wheeler
He left the faith of his fathers behind him when he went up to the East, knowing as well as his French historian knew in the nineteenth century, that in Asia the "dreams of Olympus were less worth than the dreams of the magi and the mysteries of India, pregnant with the divine."
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth
These wise men were called magi.
"Child's Story of the Bible"
Mary A. Lathbury