Chosroes, or the artifice of Heraclius, soon alienated the mind of that powerful satrap from the service of his king and country. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
Krüger thinks, of Eastern Armenia; Tiribazus being called satrap of. From Wordnik.com. [The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis] Reference
A Saka satrap Bhumaka established Scythian power on the northwest coast (c. From Wordnik.com. [b. The Deccan] Reference
Gift, a Persian governor (Heb. pehah, i.e., "satrap;" modern. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
(sunny), the scribe or secretary of Kehum, who was a kind of satrap of the conquered province of Judea and of the colony of. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
At the head rode their satrap, Bessos, Darius 'cousin. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
His son Machares was left in Panticapaeum to be satrap. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
In Gedrosia itself the satrap had been corrupt and slack. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
At the feet of the satrap there stood a trembling Italian. From Wordnik.com. [Eothen] Reference
My name is Orobazus, and I am satrap of Seleuceia-on-Tigris. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
And many a stately Persian lord, and satrap proud, was there. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
At the conquest of Susa, Harmozan, a Persian prince, the satrap of. From Wordnik.com. [Fun and Frolic] Reference
Why may not this man be the same whom Diodorus designates satrap of. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
These supplies had been collected by the ruling satrap of the country. From Wordnik.com. [Anabasis] Reference
The "Northern Nero" eyed the presumptuous satrap fixedly, and drawled. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
Next day the satrap came in state, as if confirmed in the rank already. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
The most grievous loss was Mazaios, satrap of Babylon, and all his men. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
Darius Hystaspes by the satrap Otanes, it was recolonized by the Spartan. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
On a certain number of these we find the name Mazaios, the famous satrap of. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
Nonetheless, the new satrap he had appointed for Areia was another Persian. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
Bessus, the satrap of Bactria, tried to organize a national resistance in the east. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Artaxerxes; and Cyrus remained satrap of Lydia, and commander in the maritime provinces. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
The tribesmen had fled at the mere rumor of Alexander; the satrap had escaped to Bessos. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
Better to leave the city now, go west, hire out his sword to some satrap in nearer Asia. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
They came out on the verandah from which the satrap had aimed his arrows at driven game. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
He escaped to the court of Tissapher'nes, the most powerful Persian satrap in Asia Minor. From Wordnik.com. [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference
News came meantime that Gewar had been slain by the guile of his own satrap (jarl), Gunne. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
It only needs one satrap to make a kingdom of his province, and the empire will fall apart. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
We must allow every satrap and oligarch to fall with it so that we never see its rise again. From Wordnik.com. [We Must Have Accountability Now] Reference
All in all, he had enough to make him angry, before the new satrap of Persis obeyed his summons. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
Diogenes of Sinope probably came to Athens as a political exile in connection with the Persian satrap. From Wordnik.com. [CYNICISM] Reference
What, too, was his answer to Tithraustes when the satrap offered him countless gifts if he would but quit the country?. From Wordnik.com. [Agesilaus] Reference
The object is, no doubt, to create a common interest between the nobles and the king which will keep the satrap in counterpoise. From Wordnik.com. [Cyropaedia] Reference
Thrace, always drinking; in Thessaly, ever on horseback; and when he lived with Tisaphernes, the Persian satrap, he exceeded the. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
Though the Connecticut senator -- and Democratic Leadership Council satrap -- won't jump in, he can keep the debate tacking right. From Wordnik.com. [The New Choirboys] Reference
Thereupon the Carians implored him to remain, and when he would not, they sent to Cyrus begging him to make Adousius their satrap. From Wordnik.com. [Cyropaedia] Reference
II., gave to Diodotus, satrap of Bactria, the opportunity of making himself independent (about 255 B.C.) and of conquering Sogdiana. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
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