Megabazus
3. Megabazus, the son of Megabates, one of the commanders of the fleet of Xerxes. (Hdt. 7.97.) Diodorus calls him Megabafes (11.12, 13). Perhaps he was the same person as
4. Megabazus, a Persian, who, at the time of the revolt of Inarus and the Athenian expedition to Egypt, was sent by Artaxerxes to Lacedaemon, to bribe the Peloponnesians to invade Attica; but his mission altogether failed. (Thuc. 1.109.)
5. The son of Spithridates, was beloved by Agesilaus. (Xen. Hell. 1.4.28, Ages. 5; Plut. Aqes. 11, Apopth. Lacon. p. 787; in which passages the name varies between Μεγάβαζος, Μεγάβυζος, Μεγαβάτης, and Μγαβήτης.)
6. The priest or keeper (νεώκορος) of the temple of Artemis at Ephesus. (Xen. Anab. 5.3. §§ 6, 7.) It appears from Strabo (xiv. p.641) that the Megabyzi, or, as he calls them, the Megalobyzi, were eunuch priests in the temple of Artemis. Another of these priests is mentioned by Appian (App. BC 5.9) as having incurred the anger of Cleopatra. [P.S]
(Μεγάβαζος) or Megabyzus (Μεγάβυζος). One of the seven Persian nobles who conspired against the magian Smerdis (q.v.), B.C. 521. He afterwards subdued Perinthus and other cities on the Hellespont and the coast of Thrace (Herod.iii. 70; iv. 143; v. 1-16).
- left by Darius in Thrace on his Scythian expedition: Hdt. 4.143
- Darius' estimation of him: .143
- his operations in Thrace: Hdt. 5.1, Hdt. 5.10, Hdt. 5.12, Hdt. 5.14, Hdt. 5.17, Hdt. 5.23
- son of Megabates: Hdt. 7.97