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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
ARSES, Persian king, youngest son of Artaxerxes III., was raised to the throne in 338 B.C. by Bagoas (q.v.), who had ARSINOE— ARSON murdered his father and all his brother*. But when the young king tried to make himself independent, Bagoas killed him too, with .ill hi* children, in the third year of his reign (336) (Diod. 17.5; Strabo 15. 736; Trogus, Prol. x., Alexander's despatch to Darius HI.; Arrian ii. 14. 5, and the chronographcrs). In Plutarch, Dr furl. Alex. ii. 3. 5, he is called Oarsei, in Johannes \ntioc…
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