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Satrap

noun

A governor of a province in ancient Persia.

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... Polycrates was despot of Samos, being the first who ever thought to make himself a ruler of the seas. And he had prospered marvellously. But Oroetes, the satrap of Sardis, compassed his death by foul treachery, and wrought many other crimes; whom Darius in turn put to death by guile, fearing to make open war upon him. And not long afterwards, he sent Otanes to make conquest of Samos. And during the same ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol XI. • Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton

... than his own desire, and warned him of the miscreants who had infatuated Gage. Then, explaining how his three years in America had acquainted him with facts, Lee begged Burgoyne to communicate the substance of the letter to Howe, who to his horror seemed to be becoming the satrap of an Eastern despot. Protesting his devotion to America as the last asylum of liberty, Lee signed himself with the ...

— The Siege of Boston • Allen French

... dismissed a Persian satrap," expands Barclay, "who won't let his people use our binders; that country eventually will be a great ...

— A Certain Rich Man • William Allen White

... 19. The satrap of Corduena, a province under the authority of the Persians, was a man named Jovinianus, who had grown up to manhood in the Roman territories, and was secretly friendly to us, because he had been detained as a hostage in Syria, and being now allured by the love of liberal studies, ...

— The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus • Ammianus Marcellinus

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