Gabaeus
Γαβαῖος
(Γαβαῖος), ruler of the Lesser or Hellespontine Phrygia, is mentioned by Xenophon (Xen. Cyrop. 2.1.5) as one of the allies of the Assyrians against Cyrus and (the supposed) Cyaxares II. [CYRUS.] On the defeat of the Assyrians, Gabaeus made the best of his way back to his own country. (Cyrop. 4.2.30.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.