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    Megabates

    historical figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages

    Megabates the Persian · the handsome son of Spithridates

    in the texts

    The HistoriesClassical · Greek

    Persian general and Achaemenid cousin of Darius and Artaphrenes, appointed to lead the Naxos fleet, whose quarrel with Aristagoras leads him to warn the Naxians and doom the campaign.

    Megabates, very angry at this, ordered his guards to find the captain of this ship, whose name was Scylax, and thrust him partly through an oar-hole of the ship and bound him there so that his head was outside the ship and his body inside.
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    For their general he appointed Megabates, a Persian of the Achaemenid family, cousin to himself and to Darius.
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    When Scylax had been bound, someone brought word to Aristagoras, that his Myndian friend was bound and being disgracefully treated by Megabates.
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    History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

    Former Persian governor of Dascylium, superseded by Artabazus.

    and Xerxes was pleased with the letter, and sent Artabazus, the son of Pharnaces, to the sea, and ordered him to succeed to the satrapy of Dascylium, superseding Megabates, who was governor be fore;
    book 1

    AgesilausClassical · Greek

    Handsome son of Spithridates whose attempted Persian kiss tests Agesilaus' control over desire.

    Yet when Megabates attempted to kiss him, Agesilaus resisted his advances with all his might — an act of punctilious moderation surely!
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    Megabates, feeling himself slighted, tried no more to kiss him, and Agesilaus approached one of his companions with a request that he would persuade Megabates to show him honour once again.
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    After a deep silence, Agesilaus gave his reply:
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    HellenicaClassical · Greek

    Named alongside Spithridates and the Paphlagonians among those whose desertion distressed Agesilaus.

    And nothing happened during the campaign which was more distressing to Agesilaus than the desertion of Spithridates, Megabates, and the Paphlagonians.
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