Ancient Rome:

- Similar to ancient Greeks, the
Romans were very deity-centered, but they were less lenient about magic.

- One prominent practitioner of the
magical art was Romulus, one of the
two founders of Rome. He made love potions for the Roman men to procreate the
future Roman race with the neighboring Sabine tribe women.

*Fun Side-Note: The other founder
of Rome was Remus*

- By 451 B.C., magic was curtailed by Roman law, and it was once again
further banned in 81 B.C., where
love-spells and poisons were no long allowed to be in existent. Laws against
magic escalated and culminated to banish Roman wizards and witches from the
land.

- Tiberius Gracchus was the first senatorial wizard to publically
claim superiority over his non-fellow Roman citizens. Unfortunately, his own
cousin, Scipio Nasica, for his views
and beliefs, clubbed him to death.

- The Roman Empire at its peak stretched from the west of the Caspian Sea
to modern-day Spain.

- In the midst of this domination,
magical beings of different cultures came together by learning the empire’s
language, Latin, and used it to
share information.

- This trade of ideas led to the
first meeting of the Consilium Imperii
Magi (CIM or the Council of the Empire’s Wizards), which met in Rome in 132 A.D.