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Βουβάρῃ: dative after δοὺς ταῦτα. Bubares, who had a son Amyntas by this marriage (viii. 136), must surely be the same as Bubares, son of Megabazus (vii. 22), one of the overseers of the Athos canal. Since Alexander, not Amyntas, gives Gygaea in marriage, he must in the meantime have succeeded to the throne. But this took place circ. 498 B. C., so that οὐ πολλῷ ὕστερον must not be pressed. Alexander was doubtless anxious to gain influence at the Persian court. It seems more likely that the marriage of his sister to a Persian grandee, which cast a slur on his phil-Hellenism, caused the invention of the tale that he murdered the envoys, than that the murder of the envoys was really hushed up by the marriage.

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