Meanings of persian satrap in английском

Alcibiades sat with the Persian satrap Tissaphernes, and Alcibiades the eloquent spoke.

Mausolos was a Persian satrap who had a seriously nice tomb.

Artaxerxes governed his provinces either through native kings, or else through Persian satraps.

He escaped to the court of Tissapher'nes, the most powerful Persian satrap in Asia Minor.

While living in Phrygia he was murdered by the Persian satrap at the instance of Sparta.

Alcibiades visits the Persian satrap Tissaphernes, with whose aid he negotiates an alliance between Persia and Sparta.

Many years later- acenturyor two, to be exact-a Persian satrap loitered in a forum of Rome.

Surely what is not good enough for a Persian satrap is not good enough for the Lord of Hosts.

Alexander had placed Persian satraps over most of the provinces, attaching to them Greek or Macedonian commandants as checks.

His mission was to obtain pay for the soldiers from the Persian satrap, and to collect vessels from various quarters.

On reaching his home he was disappointed not to find his wife Zeresh, the daughter of the Persian satrap Tattenai.

Vide Ninevite carvings-Persiansatraps!'

'So you reduce yourself to a Persian satrap!'

If we may judge by the eye, the soft life of a Persian Satrap has not quite exhausted the native Roman vigor.'

The rapacity and cruelty of Caius Verres could hardly have been outdone by the worst of Persian satraps; but there was a difference.

The Athenian admiral Conon, in conjunction with the Persian satrap Pharnabazus, defeats the Lacedaemonian fleet off Cnidus, and restores the fortifications of Athens.