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This Artayctes who was crucified was the grandson of that Artembares1 who instructed the Persians in a design which they took from him and laid before Cyrus; this was its purport:

1 There is an Artembares in Hdt. 1.114; but he is a Mede, and so can hardly be meant here.

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