"Satrap" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Fenn, and the Doctor sees it. "That's all right, boys—that's all right; I may be satrap of Harvey and have the power of life and death over my subjects, but that's down town. Out here, I'm ...
— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White
... leaving a garrison in the island returned home. But some of the Samians had not remained in the island, but had fled to the continent. Making an agreement with the most powerful of those in the city, and an alliance with Pissuthnes, son of Hystaspes, the then satrap of Sardis, they got together a force of seven hundred mercenaries, and under cover of night crossed over to Samos. Their first step was to rise on the commons, most of whom they secured; their next to steal their hostages from ...
— The History of the Peloponnesian War • Thucydides |
