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Definition of Artaxerxes

1. Noun. King of Persia who subdued numerous revolutions and made peace with Sparta (?-359 BC).

2. Noun. King of Persia who sanctioned the practice of Judaism in Jerusalem (?-424 BC).

Definition of Artaxerxes

1. Proper noun. (historical) the name of several Persian kings ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Artaxerxes

Arrhenius law Arrhenius plot Arrhenius theory of dissociation Arron Arruga Arruga's forceps Arsis Art Art Deco Art Nouveau

Art Tatum Arta Artamidae Artamus Artaxerxes (current term) Artaxerxes I Artaxerxes II Artemia salina Artemia trypsin-like proteinase Artemidean

Artemis Artemis pontica Artemis spinescens Artemisia abrotanum Artemisia absinthium Artemisia annua Artemisia californica Artemisia campestris Artemisia cana

Literary usage of Artaxerxes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's by Plutarch, John Dryden (1895)
"THE first Artaxerxes, among all the kings of Persia the most remarkable for a gentle and noble spirit, was sur- named the Long-handed,* his right hand being ..."

2. The Old and New Testament connected in the history of the Jews and by Humphrey Prideaux (1836)
"For it was that Artaxerxes who was contemporary with Eliashib the high-priest of the Jews, he being high-priest at the time when Nehemiah came to Jerusalem ..."

3. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation by George Grote (1862)
"Darius, the eldest son of Artaxerxes, had been declared by his father successor ... The request so displeased Artaxerxes that he seemed likely to make a new ..."

4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, John Bagnell Bury (1897)
"One of them in particular discovers a deep insight into the constitution of government "The authority of the prince," said Artaxerxes, " must be defended by ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"We find yet another instance in the classical writers" of the use of Artaxerxes as a royal name during the Achaemenian period. ..."

6. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"Artaxerxes III Artaxerxes III (Ochus) opened his reign with a massacre of all the princes of the royal family ; then, thus freed from the pretenders who ..."

7. Princeton Theological Review by Princeton Theological Seminary (1904)
"Seventhly, that in the reigns of Artaxerxes I, Darius II and Arta- xerxes II (one tablet only) all the Babylonian tablets are of this form with the addition ..."

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