It is merely a guess that saraçtibara means bow-bearer; Spiegel, "Keilinschriften," s. 106. Oppert translates: bearer of the commands of the king; "Peuple des Mèdes," p. 213.
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Strabo, p. 728, 735.
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"Anab." 3, 5, 15.
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Nöldeke, "Tabari," s. 353. Xenophon's statements about the residences in the "Anabasis" (loc. cit.) cannot be outweighed by the systematized arrangement in the "Cyropaedia" that Cyrus spent three months at Susa, two at Ecbatana, and seven months at Babylon, which Plutarch ("De Exilio," c. 12) repeats in the form, that the Persian kings passed the spring at Susa, the summer in Media, and the winter in Babylon. With Aeschylus and Herodotus Susa is a fixed residence, and so also in the treatise "De Mundo," p. 398, and the Hebrews, e. g. Nehemiah i. 1. Joseph. "Antiq." 10, 11, 7. Athenaeus, p. 513, thinks that Persepolis was the residence for the autumn. In the winter of the year 396-395 Conon finds Artaxerxes II. at Babylon; the same king says in Plutarch ("Artax." c. 19) to Parysatis, that he will never see Babylon as long as she lives.
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Plut. "Artax." c. 5.
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Diod. 17, 77.
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Aeschyl. "Pers." 660.
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Plut. "Artax." c. 26.
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Diod. 17, 77; Xenoph. "Cyri Inst." 8, 3, 13.
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Plutarch ("Artax." c. 24) maintains, it is true, that this is the value of the garments which the king habitually wore. Arrian treats of this subject, "Anab." 4, 7, and Curtius, 3, 3, 17-19; 6, 6, 4. With respect to the royal colours, cf. Esther i. 6.
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Phan. Eres. Fragm. 9, ed. Müller; Plut. "Artax." c. 20, 23; Strabo, p. 525.
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Esther iv. 11. Cf. Herod. 3, 118, 119.
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Heracl. Cum. fragm. 1, ed. Müller; Esther v. 4.
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Herod. 1, 134; Strabo, p. 734.
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Arrian, "Anab." 4, 11.
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Xenoph. "Hellen." 2, 1; 8.
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Herod. 7, 54; Xenoph. "Cyri Inst." 8, 1, 23, 24, with the addition that this was the custom in his day. Plut. "Ad princ. ineruditum," 3.
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Plutarch, "Artax." c. 5; "Conjug. praecepta," c. 16; "Quaest. Conviv." 1, 3, 1.
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Heracl. Cum. fragm. 2; Xenoph. "Hellen." 4, 1, 30.
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"Cyri Inst." 8, 4, 2, 3.
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Suidas, Ἐδέατρος.
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"Cyri Inst." 5, 2, 17.
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Plut. "Quaest. Conviv." 7, 4, 5.
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Athenaeus, p. 145. Above, p. 352.
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Plut. "Quaest. Conviv." 1, 1, 1; "Conjug. praecepta," 16.
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