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- proper noun Xerxes I, a Persian king of the Achaemenid dynasty who reigned 485-465 BC.
- proper noun Xerxes II, a Persian king who ruled for 45 days in 424 BC before being assassinated.
- proper noun A male
given name
Etymologies
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Examples
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I also disagree with the claim that 300 implies that Xerxes is homosexual, or that it claims it is a negative thing.
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The next night, I called Xerxes from the screen on Dr. van Riebeek's boat and reported what I'd learned about the Fuz-zies.
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The next night, I called Xerxes from the screen on Dr. van
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"Miller is preparing a follow-up now titled Xerxes, which begins about 10 years before the events of 300, and Snyder has expressed interest in it as a film property as well."
Frank Miller's Battle of Marathon 300 Prequel Titled 'Xerxes' « FirstShowing.net
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"I have been told, lawyer," answered Jodd, "that once there lived another monarch, one called Xerxes, who thought that he would make an end of a certain three hundred Greeks, when Greeks were different from what you are to-day, at a place called Thermopylæ.
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Acting on this warning, Leonidas and the other kings assembled their armies and checked the mighty host of Xerxes, which is said to have shaken the earth as it marched.
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Great King, as the Greeks called Xerxes, the Persian monarch, was leading the innumerable armies of Asia against the small and divided country of Greece.
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Book of Esther be the same with him whom the Greeks call Xerxes, or with
The Chosen People A Compendium of Sacred and Church History for School-Children
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Filmonic - Frank Miller has been working on a prequel to 300 called Xerxes over the past few years which Zack Snyder intends to make into a movie just like he did with 300.
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Zack Snyder has confirmed that there will in fact be a 300 prequel called Xerxes that he tenatively will direct.
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