Megabazus
6. The priest or keeper (νεώκορος) of the temple of Artemis at Ephesus. (Xen. Anab. 5.3. §§ 6, 7.) It appears from Strabo (xiv. p.641) that the Megabyzi, or, as he calls them, the Megalobyzi, were eunuch priests in the temple of Artemis. Another of these priests is mentioned by Appian (App. BC 5.9) as having incurred the anger of Cleopatra.
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.