The Parthians promised aid, and it came at least from the nearest districts, from the prince Barsemias of Hatra in the Mesopotamian desert, and from the satrap of the Adiabeni beyond the Tigris.
Artabanus to wage war against the Romans, from which Izates the satrap of Adiabene vainly dissuades him.
Or were they emboldened by the revolt of Megabyzus, satrap of Syria, to whom both Judaea and Samaria were subordinate?
Arsaces, his satrap of Parthia, had revolted against the Syrio-Babylonian Empire, and had freed himself and his people.
They were only obliged to pay the Macedonian governor the same tax on their lands as the Persian satrap had received.
At the beginning occurred the revolt of his younger brother Cyrus, satrapin Western Asia, who marched against Babylon, and fell in the battle of Cunaxa, 401 B.
They applied for aid to Aristagoras, the tyrant of Miletus, the largest of the Ionian cities, who persuaded the Persian satrap to send an expedition against the island.
During his residence at Sardis, as satrap or governor, he perceived and felt the great superiority of the Greeks to his own countrymen, not only intellectually, but as soldiers.
The Mede Datis, and Artaphernes, son of the satrap of Sardis, nephew to Darius, were the Persian generals.
M414) The reconquest of Ionia being completed, the satrapproceeded to organize the future government, the inhabitants now being composed of a great number of Persians.
At one time he was in imminent danger of his life, from the cimeter of Spithridates, but Clitus saved him by severing the uplifted arm of the satrap from his body with his sword.
But Antalcidas gained the favor of the Persian satrap Tiribasus, who had succeeded Tissaphernes, and he privately espoused the cause of Sparta, and seized Conon and caused his death.
The Jewish constitution was restored, and Nehemiah, a Persian satrap in reality, lived in a state of considerable magnificence, entertaining the chief leaders of the nation, and reforming all disorders.
Such was the state of the contending parties when Cyrus the younger was sent by his father Darius as satrap of Lydia, Phrygia, and Cappadocia, and whose command in Asia Minor was attended by important consequences.
He was warned in time, and made his escape to the satrap Tissaphernes, who commanded the forces of Persia.
Pharnabazus and Conon now sailed with their fleet to Corinth, but the Persian satrap soon left and Conon remained sole admiral, assisted with Persian money.
He was kind to the family of Darius, both before and after his assassination by the satrap Bessus.
This man was bribed by the Persian satrap Pharnabazus, who commanded the north-western region of Asia Minor, to transport the army to the European side of the Bosphorus.
When the siege of Miletus was abandoned, and Cyrus began his march, his object was divined by the satrap Tissaphernes, who hastened to Persia to put the king on his guard.
Alexander then sent Parmenio to subdue Dascyleum, the stronghold of the satrap of Phrygia, while he advanced to Sardis, the capital of Lydia, and the main station of the Persians in Asia Minor.
The retinue of our wealthiest constitutional king is as nothing compared with that of a petty satrapor a Roman proconsul.
The kingdom of Armenia was reduced to the state of a Persian province; the administration was shared between a distinguished satrap and a favorite eunuch; and Sapor marched, without delay, to subdue the martial spirit of the Iberians.
Julian to the satrap Arsaces; fierce, vulgar, and (though it might deceive Sozomen, l.
St. Martin conjectures, with a satrapof Gordyene named Jovianus, or Jovinianus; mentioned in Ammianus Marcellinus, xviii.
Footnote 56: Assyria yielded to the Persian satrap an Artaba of silver each day.
Baktria, where he hoped to find a refuge with his kinsman Bessos the satrap of that province, that we really touch on the subject with which we wish to deal in this book, viz.
From Babylon to the lovely valley wherein lies Susa, and from Susa to Persepolis, was more or less of a triumphal march in spite of the fierce opposition of the satrap Artobaizanes.
The satrap Tiribazus saw that so long as he had on his hands a war in Greece, it was impossible for him to concentrate his force against the prince of Salamis and the Egyptians.
Knidus, and the voyage of Pharnabazus across the Ægean to Peloponnesus,—we hear of that satrap as employed with Abrokomas and Tithraustes in strenuous but unavailing efforts to reconquer Egypt.
It was in vain that Autophradates, satrap of Lydia, was sent by Artaxerxes with a powerful force to subdue Datames.
Ionia and the Hellespont, in conjunction with Ariobarzanes the satrap of Phrygia.
These last words were required by the satrap to be literally inserted in the convention; but Evagoras peremptorily refused his consent, demanding that the tribute should be recognized as paid by “one king to another.
The chronicler's version of the edict in which Darius replies to the application of the Satrap Tattenai is so very friendly to the Jews that questions have been raised as to its genuineness.
If, however, we read the sentence in the third person, it will contain a further question from the Satrapand his secretary, inquiring for the names of the leaders in the work at Jerusalem.
He even orders the Satrap to provide for this work out of the revenues of his district.
And yet the weakness of his position was so evident that very little would be gained in this way, for it would be the right of the Satrap to inquire into the conduct of the local governor.
Still this was enough to supplement the calumnies of the irritated opponents which the Satrap and his secretary had been persuaded to echo with all the authority of their high position.
The letter of the Satrap and his secretary embodies the reply of the Jews to the official inquiries, and that reply clearly and boldly sets forth their position.
Now, however, since a favourite servant of the Great King had been appointed governor of Jerusalem, the Satrap of the Syrian provinces could scarce be expected to interfere.
In consequence of this appeal, the Satrap and his secretary request the king to order a search to be made for the edict, and to reply according to his pleasure.
A Median general named Datis, and Artaphernes, the son of the satrap of Sardis, and who was also nephew of Darius, were placed in titular joint command of the expedition.
Athenians before Artaphernes, and doing all he could to induce the satrap to place Athens in subjection to him, as the tributary vassal of King Darius.
The Athenian admiral Conon, in conjunction with the Persian satrap Pharnabazus, defeats the Lacedaemonian fleet off Cnidus, and restores the fortifications of Athens.
Darius is seized and laden with chains by Bessus, a Bactrian satrap who soon after slays him.
Alcibiades visits the Persian satrap Tissaphernes, with whose aid he negotiates an alliance between Persia and Sparta.
After the death of Pixodarus, the satrapbecame master of Halicarnasus.
Having espoused the party of the Persians, Pixodarus sent for a satrap to share the kingdom with him.
It is said that Mithropastes, the son of Arsites, satrap of Phrygia, pointed out these things to them.
The Susians loudly complained of the satrap Abulites, and his son Oxathres, of spoliation and tyranny.
On the division of the Persian monarchy into satrapies, Sardis became the residence of the satrapwho had the government of the sea-coast.
His confidence remained unshaken, when seized as a captive in Asia by order of the Persian satrap Artaphernes: all that he desired was, to be taken before the satrap himself.
The other, who is but twenty-five years of age, and has only been a satrap of the law for two days, hath ordered him to make an extract of a process he is going to determine, though he has not as yet examined it.
I gave the satrap a handsome present, by which means I preserved my castle, and increased my possessions.
The grand Desterham of Babylon sent hither a petty satrap in the name of king Moabdar, to have me strangled.
The satrap of Syria had a mind to dispossess me of it; but I was too rich to have any thing to fear.
The first satrap recited, with an audible voice, such actions as might entitle the authors of them to this invaluable prize.
If I ruin myself to serve the emperor of Persia, whom I never saw, the satrap of the law may well pay something for enjoying the pleasure of giving audience to pleaders.
Bessus, the satrap of Bactria, tried to organize a national resistance in the east.
Diodotus, satrap of Bactria, the opportunity of making himself independent (about 255 B.
After the return of Sheshbazzar to Babylon this position was virtually filled by Zerubbabel, a grandson of Jehoiakin, the second last king of Judah, and appointed by the Persian king Peḥah or Satrap of Judah.
But where he found the land thinly populated and badly cultivated, whether it was owing to the severity, the neglect, or the extortion of the satrap, the satrap was punished and removed from his place.
In Egypt Aryandes, who had been appointed satrapby Cambyses, still held his office.
Vahyazdata, who called himself Bardiya, sent an army to Arachosia against the Persian Vivana, my servant, the satrap of Arachosia.
Oroetes had been made satrap of Lydia and Ionia by Cyrus.
In that year Darius was fighting in Media against Phraortes, Aryandes was satrap in the year 512 B.
On the news of the rebellion Cambyses makes Aryandes satrap of Egypt,[194] and sets out against the usurper.
It was not likely to escape Darius that the great powers in the hands of the satrap would lead him to use his delegated power independently and even against his chief.
Egypt with Cyrene and Barca, the subject tribes in Ethiopia and Libya, formed a separate satrapy (the sixth); the satrap resided at Memphis.
Still more dangerous, though at a greater distance, appeared to be the attitude of a satrap who ruled over wide regions.
Next Datames himself, satrap of the rest of Cappadocia, understanding that the mind of the Persian king was poisoned against him, made a treaty with Ariobarzanes, and assumed an independent attitude in his own province.
A noble satrap of Persia, son of Hystaspes, who usurped the crown of Persia after the death of Cambyses.
A satrapof Persia who assisted the Lacedaemonians against the Athenians, and gained their esteem by his devotion to their cause.
But Oroetes, the satrap of Sardis, compassed his death by foul treachery, and wrought many other crimes; whom Darius in turn put to death by guile, fearing to make open war upon him.
These events took place in the twentieth year of the war, and to them must be added a Lacedæmonian treaty with Persia through the satrap Tissaphernes.
The satrap knew how to estimate her merit; and the Governess of AEolia was treated with greater distinction than any of her fellow-governors.
The old satrapwas dressed in a fresh summer suit of Caucasian silk, which somehow emphasised the uncouth fleshiness of his broad nose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "satrap" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bey; collector; governor; inferior; proconsul; provincial; viceroy
