satrap

• “Chosroes, or the artifice of Heraclius, soon alienated the mind of that powerful satrap from the service of his king and country.”

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• “If Bessus killed Darius and took the throne, that would drag out the fight, especially as the satrap was a skilled warrior and general who had the loyalty of the Bactrians and other eastern provinces.”

  Simon & Schuster: Alexander the Great

• “Krüger thinks, of Eastern Armenia; Tiribazus being called satrap of”

  The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis

• “Massingberd, &c. As to umbrellas, there are Oriental scholars who can inform your inquirers that the word "satrap" is traceable to words whose purport is, the bearer of an umbrella.”

  Notes and Queries, Number 37, July 13, 1850

• “[10] A "satrap" was originally a governor of a province in ancient”

  From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People

• “A Saka satrap Bhumaka established Scythian power on the northwest coast (c.”

  b. The Deccan

• “(sunny), the scribe or secretary of Kehum, who was a kind of satrap of the conquered province of Judea and of the colony of”

  Smith's Bible Dictionary

• “satrap," "palladium," and "Argus-eyed" in the proof, with little relevancy as to position or place, and no perceptible effect as to argument.”

  The Story of a Mine

• “Gift, a Persian governor (Heb. pehah, i.e., "satrap;" modern”

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• “Anglian priests went on a mission to the heathen Saxons, and, while waiting for the decision of the "satrap," "devoted themselves to prayer and psalm-singing, and daily offered to God the sacrifice of the Saving”

  The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003

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