Mithridates
Μιθριδάτης
(Μιθριδάτης).
1. An eunuch who was one of the personal attendants of Xerxes, and enjoyed a high place in the favour of that monarch, but joined with Artabanus in the conspiracy to assassinate him (B. C. 465), and enabled the latter to effect his purpose by giving him admission into the king's bedroom. (Diod. 11.69.)
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.