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Φαρνάσπεω . . . παῖς. For the position of Otanes see c. 84. He was the son of Socris (not of Pharnaspes, B. I. iv. 18). H.'s mistake may perhaps be due to a confused tradition as to his ancestor (abavus) Pharnaces, who married Atossa, the aunt of Cyrus, probably the grandfather of Cyrus ‘the great’ (Diod. xxxi. 19). Meyer (iii. 18), however, rejects this whole pedigree as a late fiction. From him descended the royal house of Cappadocia; Diodorus and Ctesias (14, p. 67) substitute for ‘Otanes’ his son Anaphas or Onophas (H. vii. 62).

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