Immortals
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the Immortals · Persians called Immortals · immortals · the Persians whom the king called Immortals · the Ten Thousand
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1 expressionThe Immortals“Ten Thousand”1 mention
The Histories (Greek)
Hydarnes son of Hydarnes was general of these picked ten thousand Persians, who were called Immortals for this reason:
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The Histories
The elite Persian royal guard, led by Hydarnes, sent to attack after the Medes but unable to break the Greek line.
When the Medes had been roughly handled, they retired, and the Persians whom the king called Immortals, led by Hydarnes, attacked in turn.
When they joined battle with the Hellenes, they fared neither better nor worse than the Median army, since they used shorter spears than the Hellenes and could not use their numbers fighting in a narrow space.
When they had arrived in Thessaly, Mardonius first chose all the Persians called Immortals, save only Hydarnes their general who said that he would not quit the king's person, and next, the Persian cuirassiers and the thousand horse and the Medes and Sacae and Bactrians and Indians, alike their infantrymen and the rest of the horsemen.
Hymn 26 To Dionysus
The divine company among whom Dionysus is counted.
The rich-haired Nymphs received him in their bosoms from the lord his father and fostered and nurtured him carefully in the dells of Nysa, where by the will of his father he grew up in a sweet-smelling cave, being reckoned among the immortals.