Otanes

Nesaian horses, and by the side of him rode a charioteer, whose name was Patiramphes, son of Otanes a Persian.

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Then Otanes took to him Aspathines and Gobryas,466 who were leading men among the Persians and also his own most trusted friends, and related to them the whole matter: and they, as it then appeared, had suspicions also themselves that it was so; and when Otanes reported this to them, they readily accepted his proposals.

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Otanes then, who was made to sit in that seat, had now become the successor of Megabazos in the command: and he conquered the

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Otanes urged that they should resign the government into the hands of the whole body of the Persians, and his words were as follows:

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Otanes, who were also Persian commanders and were married also to daughters of Dareios, after they had pursued those Ionians who had made the expedition to Sardis and defeating them in battle had driven them by force to their ships, — after this distributed the cities amongst themselves and proceeded to sack them.

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Some Editors place this clause before the words: “and Smerdomenes the son of Otanes,” for we do not hear of Otanes or Smerdomenes elsewhere as brother and nephew of Dareios.

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The Kissians served with equipment in other respects like that of the Persians, but instead of the felt caps they wore fillets: 1044 and of the Kissians Anaphes the son of Otanes was commander.

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He thus brought his life to an end; and Artaphrenes the governor of the province of Sardis was appointed with Otanes the third of the commanders to make the expedition against Ionia and that part of Aiolia which bordered upon it.

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Upon that they retired out of the way and again considered with themselves, Otanes and his supporters strongly urging that they should delay and not set to the work when things were thus disturbed,473 while Dareios and those of his party urged that they should go forthwith and do that which had been resolved, and not delay.

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Persians whom he trusted most; so Otanes brought in

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