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XERXES I

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 211 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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XERXES (the Greek form of the Pers. Khshayarsha; Old Testament Ahasverus, Akhashverosh—i.e. Ahasuerus (q.v.)—with wrong vocalization and substitution of y for v, instead of Akhshavarsh; in Aramaic inscriptions and papyri from Egypt the name is written Khs

XERXES I . (485-465).

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