Tigranes

Why that, by Zeus,

To this Tigranes replied:

You are right, said Cyrus;

Timotheus, seeing that Ariobarzanes was in open revolt from the King and that Samos was garrisoned by Cyprothemis, who had been stationed there by Tigranes, the King’s viceroy, abandoned his intention of helping the satrap, but invested the island and used his force to liberate it;

Mardontes and Tigranes, the general of the land army, were killed fighting.

the reason of their making for the mainland was that they might be under the shelter of their army at Mykale, which had been left by Xerxes ' command behind the rest of his host to hold Ionia.

Diphridas accordingly set about these things, and he was successful not only in his other undertakings, but particularly in capturing Tigranes, the husband of Struthas’ daughter, and his wife also, as they were journeying to Sardis, and in obtaining a large ransom for their release, so that he was at once able to hire mercenaries with the money thus obtained.