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ARSES  ,

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Persian
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king, youngest son of
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Artaxerxes III., was raised to the
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throne in 338 B.C. by
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Bagoas (q.v.), who had murdered his
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father and all his
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brothers . But when the
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young king tried to make himself
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independent, Bagoas killed him too, with all his
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children, in the third
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year of his reign (336) (Diod . 17.5;
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Strabo 15 . 736;
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Trogus, Prol. x.,
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Alexander's despatch to
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Darius III.;
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Arrian ii . 14 . 5, and the chronographers) . In
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Plutarch, De fort . Alex. ii . 3 . 5, he is called Oarses; in Johannes
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Antioch. p . 38, Arsamos; in the
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canon of
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Ptolemy, Aroges (by
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Elias of
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Nisibis, Piruz); in a
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chronological tablet from
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Babylon (Brit .
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Mus .

Sp. ii . 71, Zeitschrift fiir Assyriologie, viii . 176, x . 64) he is abbreviated into Ar . See

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PERSIA:
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Ancient
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History . (ED .

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