Ariomardus

From Ancient Greek Ἀριόμαρδος (Ariómardos), from Old Persian *Ariyamarda.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /a.ri.oˈmar.dus/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.ri.oˈmar.dus/,

Ariomardus m sg (genitive Ariomardī); second declension

1. The name of several figures of the classical era:
   1. The son of Darius and Parmys
      • 1818, Johann Schweighäuser, Herodoti historiarum libri IX. Latine , pages 323–324, note 78:

        Ordinabant hos autem hi duces: Moschos et Tibarenos Ariomardus, Darii filius et Parmyis, filiæ Smerdis, Cyri neptis: Macronas vero et Mosynœcos Artayctes, filius Cherasmis, qui Sesto ad Hellespontum præfectus erat.

        hese were arrayed together under the following commanders,—the Moschoi and Tibarenians under Ariomardos, who was the son of Dareios and of Parmys, the daughter of Smerdis son of Cyrus; the Macronians and Mossynoicoi under Artaÿctes the son of Cherasmis, who was governor of Sestos on the Hellespont.

   2. The brother of Artyphius
      • 1818, Johann Schweighäuser, Herodoti historiarum libri IX. Latine , page 322, note 67:

        Caspii penulas induti (sisyrnas vocant) militabant, et arcubius pro populi more ex arundine instructi; ducem habentes Ariomardum, Artyphii fratrem.

        The Caspians served wearing coats of skin and having native bows of reed and short swords: thus were these equipped; and they acknowledged as their leader Ariomardos the brother of Artyphios.

   3. A ruler of Thebes, Egypt
      • 1867, Henri Weil, Aeschyli quae supersunt tragoediae, volume 2, section 4, Persae, Praefatio, page xix:

        Curam enim non maximam eum his rebus adhibuisse eo argui videtur quod ne sibi quidem ipsi ubique constat, quippe qui Ariomardum Thebis Aegyptiis praepositum dicat v. 39

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Second-declension noun, singular only.

• “Ariomardus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray