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Headword:
Arbakês
Adler number: alpha,3753
Translated headword: Arbaces, Arbakes
Vetting Status: high
Translation: King of the Medes in the time of Sardanapalus,[1] a man who was both sensible in life and indeed someone skilled in negotiations; he spent his time in hunts and wars and accomplished many noble things at first, but then had bigger ideas. This man had heard of the life and customs which a king should have in mind and took it to heart, and he realized that for lack of a[nother] noble man he might have the rule of Asia; and he put together a plan concerning the whole kingdom.[2]
Greek Original:Arbakês, basileus Mêdôn epi Sardanapalou, anêr ton te bion sôphrôn kai pragmatôn ei dê tis empeiros, tetrimmenos te en kunêgesiois kai polemois kai polla men palai gennaia exeirgasmenos, meizô de tote dianooumenos. houtos akêkoôs ton te bion kai ta êthê hois chrêtai basileus es noun enebaleto, kai enethumêthê ara, hoti aporiai gennaiou andros houtos hexoi ta tês Asias kratê: kai boulên suntithetai peri holês archês.
Notes:
Nicolaus of Damascus FGrH 90 F2. For Arbakes see also under
kappa 2046.
[1] For whom see
sigma 121,
sigma 122. This Assyrian king of the C7 BCE is better known to us as Ashurbanipal.
[2]
Diodorus Siculus 2.24-28 has a narrative account of how this Arbakes captured Nineveh and took over the Assyrian Empire which has been described as "contrary to all known evidence" (J.M. Cook,
The Persian Empire [London 1983] 232 n.9).
Keywords: biography; chronology; ethics; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 10 August 2001@20:17:49.
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