Megabazus
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.)
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.