Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Otānes

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Otānes

（Ὀτάνης).

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A Persian who was the first to suspect the imposture of Smerdis (q.v.), the Magian, and organized a conspiracy against him in B.C. 521. Later he invaded Samos for the purpose of placing Syloson, brother of Polycrates, at the head of the Samian government (Herod.iii. 68 and 141).

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A Persian, the son of Sisamnes, who in B.C. 506 took command of the forces on the coast in place of Megabyzus. He captured Byzantium, Chalcedon, Lamponium, Antandros, and the islands of Lemnos and Imbros (Herod.v. 102; vi. 6).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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