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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 655 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARSES , See also:

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

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

PERSIA: See also:Ancient See also:History. (ED.

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