Coës

Family: Mytilenean · Role: commander of the Mytilenians · First appears: Book 4 · §95–103

Life events

• Coës advised Dareios to keep the bridge guarded, and Dareios approved his counsel.(Book 4 · §95–103 · 📍 the Ister)
  • With: Erxander Dareios
  • “With this opinion Dareios was very greatly pleased and made answer to him in these words”
• Dareios summoned Histiaios and Coës and offered them a choice of rewards.(Book 5 · §1–11 · 📍 Sardis)
  • With: Dareios Histiaios
  • “Dareios, so soon as he had crossed over the Hellespont and come to Sardis, called to mind the service rendered to him by Histiaios the Milesian and also the advice of the Mytilenian Coës, and having sent for them to come to Sardis he offered them a choice of rewards.”
• Coës asked Dareios to make him despot of Mitylene.(Book 5 · §1–11 · 📍 Sardis)
  • “but Coës, not being a despot but a man of the people, asked to be made despot of Mitylene.”
• The men of Mitylene stoned Coës to death.(Book 5 · §36–44 · 📍 Mitylene)
  • “Now the men of Mitylene, so soon as they received Coës into their hands, brought him out and stoned him to death”

Book 4 · §95–103

• with Dareios (Coës offered counsel to Dareios.) “Coës the son of Erxander, who was commander of the Mytilenians, said thus to Dareios”
• parent: Erxander “Coës the son of Erxander”

Book 5 · §1–11

• with Dareios (Coës had given advice to Dareios.) “Meanwhile Dareios, so soon as he had crossed over the Hellespont and come to Sardis, called to mind the service rendered to him by Histiaios the Milesian and also the advice of the Mytilenian Coës, and having sent for them to come to Sardis he offered them a choice of rewards.”
• with Dareios (Dareios summoned Coës and offered him a choice of rewards.) “and having sent for them to come to Sardis he offered them a choice of rewards.”

Book 5 · §36–44

• parent: Erxander “Coës the son of Erxander”
• patron: Dareios (Dareios gave Coës Mytilene.) “and Coës the son of Erxander, to whom Dareios had given Mytilene as a gift,”
• with Aristagoras of Kyme (Coës was among the commanders seized.) “So Iatragoras was sent for this purpose and seized by craft Oliatos the son of Ibanollis of Mylasa, and Histiaios the son of Tymnes of Termera, and Coës the son of Erxander, to whom Dareios had given Mytilene as a gift, and Aristagoras the son of Heracleides of Kyme, and many others;”

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