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See also:MEMNON OF See also:RHODES , See also:brother of See also:Mentor (q.v.), with whom he entered the services of the rebellious See also:- SATRAP [Pers. Khshatrapavan, i.e." protector (superintendent) of the country (or district)," Heb. sakhshadrapan, Gr. taerpan-ris (insc. of Miletus, Sitzungsber. Berl. Ak. 1900, 112), E% u3pa7eixav (insc. of Mylasa, Dittenberger, Sylloge, 95), ital. p6. rr
satrap Artabazus of See also:Phrygia, who married his See also:sister. Mentor after the See also:conquest of See also:Egypt See also:rose high in the favour of the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, and Memnon, who had taken See also:refuge with Artabazus at the Macedonian See also:court, became a zealous adherent of the See also:Persian king; he assisted Mentor in subduing the rebellious satraps and dynasts in See also:Asia See also:Minor, and succeedei him as See also:general of the Persian troops. In the pseudo-Aristotelian Oeconomica, ii. 28, stories are told of his methods of obtaining See also:money ,and evading his obligations; thus he extorted a large sum of money from the conquered inhabitants of See also:Lampsacus and cheated his soldiers out of a See also:part of their pay. He owned a large territory in eastern Troas (See also:Arrian i. 17, 8; See also:Strabo xiii. 587). He gained some successes against See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip II. of Macedon in 336 (Diod. xvii. 6; Polyaen. v. 44, 4, 5) and commanded the Persian See also:army against See also:Alexander's invasion. Convinced that it was impossible to meet Alexander in a pitched See also:battle, his See also:plan was to See also:lay See also:waste the See also:country and retire into the interior, meanwhile organizing resistance on See also:sea (where the Persians were far See also:superior to the Macedonians) and carrying the See also:war into See also:Greece. But his See also:advice was overridden by the Persian satraps, who forced him to fight at the Granicus. After his defeat he tried to organize the maritime war and occupied the See also:Greek islands, but in the beginnipg of 333 he See also:fell See also:ill and died (Arrian i1. 1, I). (ED.
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