Sabaces
Σαβάκης
(Σαβάκης), a Persian, was satrap of Egypt under Dareius III., and was slain at the battle of Issus, in B. C. 333 (Arr. Anab. 2.11; Curt. 3.8, 4.1). The name is otherwise written Sataces and Sathaces, and it occurs as Tasiaces in Diod. 17.34, according to the common reading. (Wess. ad loc.; Freinsh. ad Curt. ll. cc.)
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.