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BAGAEUS (Βαγαῖος, ὁ)

HENRY P. COLBURN

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bagaeus, son of ARTONTES, was a Persian dispatched by DARIUS I to kill the satrap OROETES by cleverness rather than force (3.127–28). Bagaeus was chosen by LOT from thirty volunteers to orchestrate Oroetes’ demise. He first ascertained the loyalty of Oroetes’ guards by presenting them with a series of documents bearing the seal of Darius. When they responded obediently, he ordered them to execute Oroetes. Bagaeus’ son MARDONTES later served as a commander in XERXES’ expedition against Greece (7.80; 8.130.2). He may be the same man as the Bagiya who appears in an Elamite administrative tablet from the PERSEPOLIS Fortification Archive (Hallock 1969, no. 823), probably the husband of an otherwise unknown Princess Ishtin (Lewis 1997, 355–56).