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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Petines (search)
Petines （*Peti/nhs), one of the generals who commanded the Persian army at the passage of the Granicus,B. C. 334. He was killed in the battle. (Arr. Anab. 1.12. 16.) [E.H.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pha'rnaces (search)
Pha'rnaces 4. A Persian of high rank, and brother-in-law of Dareius Codomannus, who was killed at the battle of the Granicus, B. C. 334. (Arr. Anab. 1.16.5; Diod. 17.21.) [E.H.B]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pixo'darus (search)
cedonia, by offering the hand of his eldest daughter in marriage to Arrhidaeus, the bastard son of the Macedonian monarch. The discontent of the young Alexander at this period led him to offer himself as a suitor for the Carian princess instead of his natural brother -- an overture which was eagerly embraced by Pixodarus, but the indignant interference of Philip put an end to the whole scheme. Pixodarus died-- apparently a natural death -- some time before the landing of Alexander in Asia, B. C. 334 : and was succeeded by his son-in-law Orontobates. (Diod. 16.74 ; Arr. Anab. 1.23.10; Strab. xiv. pp. 656, 657 ; Plut. Alex. 10.) The name is very variously written in the MSS. and editions of Arrian and Plutarch : the latter, for the most part, have *Phco/dwros (Sintenis, ad Piut. l.c. ; Ellendt. ad Arr. l.c.), but the correctness of the form *Picw/daros is attested both by his coins, which resemble those of his predecessors Maussolus and Idrieus in their type and general design, and by
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ptolemaeus (search)
Ptolemaeus 3. One of the select officers called Somatophylaces, or guards of the king's person, who was killed at the siege of Halicarnassus, B. C. 334. (Arr. Anab. 1.22.) Freinsheim, in his supplement to Curtius (2.10.13), has assumed this to be the son of Philip, but it is more probable, as already pointed out, that the latter was the governor of Caria.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ptolemaeus (search)
Ptolemaeus 4. Son of Seleucus, another of the Somatophylaces, who combined with that distinguished post the command of one of the divisions of the phalanx. He was lately married when he accompanied Alexander on his expedition to Asia, B. C. 334, on which account he was selected by the king to command the body of Macedonians, who were allowed to return home for the winter at the end of the first campaign. In the following spring he rejoined Alexander at Gordium, with the troops under his command, accompanied by fresh reinforcements. At the battle of Issus (B. C. 332) his division of the phalanx was one of those opposed to the Greek mercenaries under Dareius, and upon which the real brunt of the action consequently devolved; and he himself fell in the conflict, after displaying the utmost valour. (Arr. Anab. 1.24, 29, 2.8, 10; Curt. 3.9.7.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Rheomithres (search)
Rheomithres （*(Reomi/qrhs), a Persian who joined in the general revolt of the western provinces from Artaxerxes Mnemon, in B. C. 362, and was employed by his confederates to go to Tachos, king of Egypt, for aid. Having returned to Asia, with 500 talents and 50 ships of war, he sent for a number of the rebel chiefs to receive the subsidy, and, on their arrival, he arrested them, and despatched them in chains to Artaxerxes, thus making his own peace at court. It was perhaps the same Rheomithres, whom we find in command of a body of 2000 cavalry, for Dareius III., at the battle of the Granicus, in B. C. 334, and who fell in the next year at the battle of Issus. (Xen. Cyrop. 8.8; Diod. 15.92, 17.19, 34; Arr. Anab. 1.12, 2.11; Curt. 3.8; comp. Wess. ad Diod. 17.19; Freinsh. ad Curt. l.c.) [E.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Rufi'nus, Corne'lius 1. P. Cornelius Rufinus, dictator B. C. 334, was obliged to lay down his office on account of a fault in the auspices at his election. (Liv. 8.17.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Spithrida'tes (search)
Spithrida'tes 2. Satrap of Lydia and Ionia under Dareius Codomannus, was one of the Persian commanders at the battle of the Granicus, in B. C. 334, in which engagement, while he was aiming a blow from behind at Alexander, his arm was cut off by Cleitus, son of Dropides (Arr. Anab. 1.12, 15, 16). Diodorus calls him Spithrobates, and appears to confound him with Mithridates [MITHRIDATES, No. 5.], the son in-law of Dareius, whom Alexander slew in the battle with his own hand; while what Arrian records of Spithridates is related by Diodorus of his brother Rhoesaces. (Diod. 17.19, 20; Wess. ad loc. ; Plut. Alex. 16, de Alex. Fort. 1.2.) [E.E]
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