Idanthyrsus
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Idanthyrsus the Scythian
in the texts
Orations
Scythian king cited as an example of a just ruler granted long life.
"But the brave and humane man, well-disposed to his subjects, honoring virtue and striving lest he be thought inferior in any of the good things, compelling the unjust to repent and aiding the weak—him God, admiring his virtue, for the most part brings on to old age, as we hear of Cyrus and of Deioces the Mede and Idanthyrsus the Scythian and Leucon, and of many of the Laconian kings, and of some …
The Histories
King of the largest Scythian division, who receives and defiantly answers Darius's demand for submission.
As this went on for a long time and did not stop, Darius sent a horseman to Idanthyrsus the Scythian king, with this message:
their two other divisions, namely, the greater whose ruler was Idanthyrsus, and the third whose king was Taxakis, were to unite, and taking with them also the Geloni and Budini, to draw off like the others at the Persian approach, always keeping one day's march ahead of the enemy, avoiding a confrontation and doing what had been determined.
Idanthyrsus the Scythian king replied: