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Takhmaspâda: Median
general in Persian service, sent by king Darius
I the Great against Tritantaechmes,
a Sagartian
who had continued the rebellion of the Median king Phraortes.
Takhmaspâda
defeated and arrested his opponent in the Summer of 521 BC.
Darius tells the story in the Behistun
inscription:
King Darius says: A man named Tritantaechmes,
a Sagartian, revolted from me, saying to his
people: 'I am king in Sagartia, of the family of Cyaxares.'
Then I sent forth a Persian and a Median army. A Median
named Takhmaspâda, my servant, I made their leader, and I said unto
him: 'Go, smite that host which is in revolt, and does not acknowledge
me.'
Thereupon Takhmaspâda went forth with the army, and he
fought a battle with Tritantaechmes. Ahuramazda
brought me help; by the grace of Ahuramazda my army utterly defeated that
rebel host, and they seized Tritantaechmes and brought him unto me. Afterwards
I cut off both his nose and ears, and put out one eye, he was kept bound
at my palace entrance, all the people saw him. Afterwards I crucified him
in Arbela.
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