Colaxaïs
Family: Scythian · Role: youngest son of Targitaos · First appears: Book 4 · §1–9
Life events
- Targitaos fathered three sons: Lipoxaïs, Arpoxaïs, and Colaxaïs.(Book 4 · §1–9)
- The elder brothers yielded the kingly power to Colaxaïs after he took the sacred gold.(Book 4 · §1–9)
- With: Lipoxaïs Arpoxaïs
- “These then the gold repelled by blazing with fire; but when the third and youngest came up to it, the flame was quenched, and he carried them to his own house. The elder brothers then, acknowledging the significance of this thing, delivered the whole of the kingly power to the youngest.”
- Colaxaïs established three kingdoms for his sons and kept the sacred gold in the largest.(Book 4 · §1–9)
- “Colaxaïs, they say, established three kingdoms for his sons; and of these he made one larger than the rest, and in this the gold is kept.”
Book 4 · §1–9
- parent: Targitaos “Targitaos, they report, was produced from some such origin as this, and of him were begotten three sons, Lipoxaïs and Arpoxaïs and the youngest Colaxaïs.”
- siblings with Lipoxaïs “Targitaos, they report, was produced from some such origin as this, and of him were begotten three sons, Lipoxaïs and Arpoxaïs and the youngest Colaxaïs.”
- siblings with Arpoxaïs “Targitaos, they report, was produced from some such origin as this, and of him were begotten three sons, Lipoxaïs and Arpoxaïs and the youngest Colaxaïs.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.