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Phrasaortes

Φρασαόρτης

(Φρασαόρτης), son of Rheomithres, a Persian, who was appointed by Alexander the Great satrap of the province of Persia Proper, B. C. 331. He died during the expedition of the king to India. (Arr. Anab. 3.18, 6.29.)

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.