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Tigra'nes

2. A Persian of the royal race of the Achaemenidae, who commanded the Median troops in the army of Xerxes, with which he invaded Greece, B. C. 480. After the defeat of the Persian king, Tigranes was appointed to command the army of 60,000 men, which was destined to maintain possession of Ionia. (Hdt. 7.62, 9.96.)

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    • Herodotus, Histories, 9.96
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