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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—A

Arbaces

(3 syl.).

A Mede and Assyrian satrap, who conspired against Sardanapalus, and founded the empire of Media on the ruins of the Assyrian kingdom. (Byron: Sardanapalus.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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