Artacæas, an officer in the army of Xerxes, the tallest of all the troops, the king excepted.
Artacæna, a city of Asia, near Aria.
Artăce, a town and seaport near Cyzicus. It did not exist in the age of Pliny. There was in its neighbourhood a fountain called Artacia. Herodotus, bk. 4, ch. 14.—Procopius, The Persian War, bk. 1, ch. 25.—Strabo, bk. 13.—Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 32.——A city of Phrygia.——A fortified place of Bithynia.
Artacēne, a country of Assyria near Arbela, where Alexander conquered Darius. Strabo, bk. 16.
Artăcia, a fountain in the country of the Læstrygones. Tibullus, bk. 4, poem 1, li. 60.
Artæi, a name by which the Persians were called among their neighbours. Herodotus, bk. 7, ch. 61.
Artagreras, a town of Upper Armenia. Strabo.
Artagerses, a general in the army of Artaxerxes, killed by Cyrus the younger.—Plutarch, Artaxerxes.
Artanes, a king of the southern parts of Armenia. Strabo, bk. 11.——A river of Thrace flowing into the Ister. Herodotus, bk. 4, ch. 49.——A river of Colchis.
Artaphernes, a general whom Darius sent into Greece with Datis. He was conquered at the battle of Marathon, by Miltiades. See: [Datis]. Cornelius Nepos, Miltiades.—Herodotus.