The Seven
“Persian conspirators”
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The Histories
The band of seven leading Persians, including Otanes, Darius, and Gobryas, who conspire together to kill the false Smerdis and his brother.
To this Darius answered:
So one of the Magi wounded these;
Intaphrenes lost his eye from the wound but was not killed.