Artaxerxes

and the king sent Megabazus, a Persian, to Lacedaemon with a sum of money, that he might cause the recall of the Athenians from Egypt by the Peloponnesians being persuaded to invade Attica.

Now Inarus, the son of Psammetichus, the Libyan king of the Libyans bordering on Egypt, having his headquarters at Maraea, the city above Pharos, caused the greater part of Egypt to revolt from king Artaxerxes, and being himself made ruler of it, invited the Athenians to his aid.

The king, it is said, approved of his plan, and told him to do so.

he accordingly made his way to the King as quickly as he could, with about five hundred horsemen.

Darius and Parysatis had two sons born to them, of whom the elder was Artaxerxes and the younger Cyrus.

And when the King heard from Tissaphernes about Cyru s’ array, he set about making counter-preparations.

Cyrus thirty years, Cambyses nineteen, Darius forty-six, Xerxes twenty-six, Artaxerxes forty-one, Darius eight, Artaxerxes forty-two, Ochus eight, Arses three.

And after Aggaeus and Zacharias, Nehemiah, the chief cup-bearer of Artaxerxes, the son of Acheli the Israelite, builds the city of Jerusalem and repairs the temple.

the mother’s dresses are worth perhaps fifty minae at the outside, while the son has under three hundred acres at Erchiae, she would wonder to what on earth this Alcibiades could be trusting, that he proposed to contend against Artaxerxes;

And then, suppose that you had to make what show you could of your ancestors, and of Salamis as the native land of Eurysaces, or of Aegina as the home of the yet earlier Aeacus, to impress Artaxerxes, son of Xerxes, how you must expect to be laughed at!

Artaxerxes reigned forty-one years.

But since Artaxerxes and his court became the victims of wine, they have neither gone out themselves in the old way nor taken the others out hunting;

So that when Tiribazus ordered those to be present who desired to give ear to the peace which the King had sent down, all speedily presented themselves.

When these things had been accomplished and the states had sworn that they would abide by the treaty which the King had proposed, thereupon the armies were disbanded and the naval armaments were likewise disbanded.

and when they had sailed past him, Antalcidas turned about and came back to Abydus, for he had heard that Polyxenus was approaching with the ships from Syracuse and Italy, twenty in number, and he wished to join these also to his command.