Abrocomes

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Abrocomes (Greek Αβροκόμης) was a son of king Darius I of Persia and his wife Phratagune, who died with his full brother Hyperanthes in the battle of Thermopylae, while fighting over the body of Leonidas.^[1][2]

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1. ^ Herodotus, Histories, vii.224
2. ^ Smith, William (1867), “Abrocomes”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, pp. 3 

[edit] Other sources

• The history of Herodotus, Volume 2 at Project Gutenburg

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).