If the satrapsgave any grounds for suspicion, they were either secretly or openly removed out of the way.
He could not always expect that such tendencies in distant provinces could be known in time, or that rebellions on the part of satraps could be prevented.
The rapidity with which the king's commands reached even the satraps of the most distant lands, kept the authority of the king before them.
The silver money which the satraps struck had no legal privileges over the common coins of the provinces.
Above all, the feeling must be kept alive in the satraps of the provinces that the enormous powers delegated to them were given on the condition of absolute obedience.
Appeals from the jurisdiction of the satraps to the king were possible for the adjacent provinces and did occur, but for the inhabitants of more distant provinces they were extremely difficult; yet these were the provinces chiefly in point.
The satraps of the provinces had been able to rule over their provinces independently.
There is no doubt that the satraps commanded the troops of their districts; at a later time they even carried on independent wars.
From Herodotus we learn that he secretly sent messages to the satraps at the time of the rule of the Magians[208].
At Sardis the satraps of Lydia-Mysia had made several parks of this kind; the most beautiful was adorned with water and meadows, with places for recreation and shade, in a most extraordinary and royal manner.
The commands of the king to the satraps were always given in writing, and accredited by the impression of the king's seal.
Besides the garrisons, the amount of troops was fixed which the satraps had to keep under arms, to support their authority, to carry out executions, and to secure the provinces.
The satraps of Arachosia and Bactria, Vivana and Dadarshis, remained loyal to Darius and kept their lands in obedience.
These satraps generally acted more like independent or even hostile princes, than coöperating colleagues; one of the many causes of the weakness of the Persian empire.
She was engaged in the task (as has already been mentioned) of protecting the Asiatic Greeks against the Persian satraps in their neighborhood.
Negotiations between the new satrap and Agesilaus—the satrapsin Asia Minor hostile to each other.
How rare were the merits and accomplishments of Cyrus, as a Persian, will be best felt when we contrast this portrait, by Xenophon, with the description of the Persian satraps by Isokrates.
Moreover, jealousy between neighboring satraps was an ordinary feeling, which Antalkidas now hoped to turn to the advantage of Sparta.
Having properly garrisoned the strong places, the two satraps crossed the Mæander at the head of a powerful Grecian and Karian force, with numerous Persian cavalry, to attack the Ionian cities.
As the authority of the Hittite satraps at Sardis began to decay the Heraclid dynasty arose.
To this must be added that the entire nobility of the realm, the satraps or governors of the provinces, and the chief priests from every town were also assembled at Babylon to celebrate the king's birthday.
And are there indeed with you no jades to dupe a poor devil, no intimate friends that win his money and knock out an eye for him, no fraudulent bankrupts, no satraps that make a jest of you while they refuse you justice?
They are a reminiscence of the twenty vassal-kings or satraps whom the Assyrians appointed to govern the country, and among whom Psammetikhos and his father had been included.
Necho had been one of twenty Egyptian satraps under Esar-haddon and Assur-bani-pal, and though he had once been carried in chains to Assyria on a charge of treason, he had returned to his government loaded with honours.
Sabako had been dead long before, and Tirhakah was vainly endeavouring to drive the Assyrians and their vassal-satraps out of Egypt.
It is noteworthy that a century later the Assyrian king Assur-bani-pal still couples together the princes of Ahnas and Zoan in his list of the satraps of Egypt.
The victory was complete, and great numbers of the satraps were slain.
One hundred thousand Persians were slain, not in fight, but in flight, and among them were several eminent satraps and grandees.
Memnon advised the satraps to avoid fighting on the land, and to employ the fleet for aggressive movements in Macedonia and Greece, but Arsites rejected his advice.
Peithon was unable to retain, and afterwards, in the same year, conquered the satraps of Iran.
According to Justin also the satraps already in existence were retained in India; Peithon, whom Alexander had made satrap of the lower Indus, received the command of the colonies founded there.
I have quoted the passage from Bæda about the satraps in Norman Conquest, i.
He may be surrounded with a worship almost more than earthly, while the reality of power passes to a Mayor of the Palace, or is split up among the satraps of distant provinces(45).
Babylonia had her own kings, but they were little more than hereditary satraps receiving investiture from Nineveh.
It not only roused the most distant cities of the Grecian world, but also the Persian satraps and the court of Susa.
Satraps and colonists followed in the wake of the generals; and the amount of annual tribute to be paid by each province was defined and rigorously exacted from its governor.
The satraps quarrelled with one another, intrigued with Tirhakah, and rebelled against Assur-bani-pal.
The prefects orsatraps of the Assyrian provinces and subject cities were appointed by the king, like the military officers, and were responsible to him.
I have stirred up from the north, and he hath come; from the rising of the sun one who calleth upon My Name: and he shall trample satraps like mortar, and as the potter treadeth out clay.
He cometh upon satraps as on mortar, and as the potter treadeth upon clay (xli.
He found the empire in disorder: the provincial satraps raising armies of their own, Bactria and Media in insurrection, and Olympias making government impossible in Macedonia.
The nomadic Arabians alone of all the peoples of what is nowadays called the Near East, did not pay tribute to the satraps (provincial governors) of Darius.
The Hebrews, and even the conquering race which ruled them, were slaves to the caprice of satraps and magistrates whose days were wasted in revelry and in the unbridled indulgence of their lusts.
Persian satraps over them, these satraps being charged with the collection of the public revenue, the maintenance of order, and the administration of justice; in fact, he governed the whole Eastern world very much as we govern India.
The satraps were practically supreme in their several provinces, and used their power to extort enormous wealth from their miserable subjects.
The patriotic satraps of Armenia, who asserted the freedom and dignity of the crown, implored the protection of Rome in favor of Tiridates, the lawful heir.
Artaxerxes easily defeated the confederate army, and forced the satraps to take refuge in Roman territory.
The Persians, too, lost their generals Meranes and Nohodares; and with them no fewer than fifty satraps and great nobles are said to have perished.
Alexander had placed Persian satraps over most of the provinces, attaching to them Greek or Macedonian commandants as checks.
Persia, until the time of Anushirwan, had been divided into a multitude of provinces, the satraps or governors of which held their office directly under the crown.
There is no reason to believe that any sufficient watch was kept over their satraps by the Seleucid kings, or even any system of checks established, such as the Achaemenidae had, at least in theory, set up and maintained.
The satraps may have acted as colonels of regiments under the arzbeds, and may probably have had the nomination of the subordinate (regimental) officers.
Seloucus divided his empire into seventy-two satrapies; but among his satraps not one was an Asiatic--all were either Macedonians or Greeks.
Oh, by the way, I've changed the title of the book to Satraps of the Simple.
It isn't likely that he could or would have written Satraps of the Simple if this particular blow hadn't fallen.
May the saints guard your throne, and bring around it its best defence, the thegn-born satraps whose fathers fought with Alfred and Athelstan.
My order is unto theSatraps and 410 Their household train.
How many Satraps have I seen set out In his Sire's day for mighty Vice-royalties, Whose tombs are on their path!
Then these presidents and satraps assembled together to the king, and said thus to him, King Darius, live forever.
Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion nor fault, because he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.
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