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ἄλλην: Atossa, who was successively the wife of Cambyses, of the pretender Smerdis, and of Darius (cc. 68, 88). For her influence cf. vii. 2; her name has become proverbial for a reigning Sultana (cf. Pope, Moral Essays, ii. 115 seq.); her sons were Xerxes, Masistes (vii. 82), Achaemenes (vii. 97), Hystaspes (vii. 64).

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