Mitradates

Family: Median · Role: herdsman · First appears: Book 1 · §102–110

Book 1 · §102–110

• employer: Astyages “straightway sent a messenger to that one of the herdsmen of Astyages who he knew fed his herds on the pastures which were most suitable for his purpose.”
• married with Kyno “and he was married to one who was his fellow-slave; and the name of the woman to whom he was married was Kyno in the tongue of the Hellenes and in the Median tongue Spaco,”

Book 1 · §117–122

• employer: Astyages (Mitradates is identified as Astyages' herdsman.) “thou shalt find a father and a mother not after the fashion of Mitradates the herdsman and his wife.”
• with Cyrus (Mitradates is identified as the herdsman; he raised Cyrus as a child.) “And he said that he had been brought up by the wife of the herdsman, and continued to praise her throughout, so that Kyno was the chief person in his tale.”

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