Madates
called by Diodorus MA'DETAS, (Μαδέτας), a general of Dareius, who defended a strong mountain--fortress of the Uxii against Alexander the Great, when the latter wished to penetrate from Susiana into Persis towards the end of B. C. 331. He was pardoned by Alexander at the entreaties of Sisygambis, the mother of Dareius, a niece of whom he had married. (Curt. 5.3; Diod. 17.67.)
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.