| Domain | Definition | ||
| Antiquities | Bessus (Bêssos). A satrap of Bactria under Darius III., who, after the defeat of Darius by Alexander the Great at Arbela (B.C. 331), seized him with the intention of carrying him as a prisoner to his own satrapy. Being hotly pursued by the Macedonians, he murdered his royal captive and made his own escape. He was subsequently delivered into the hands of Alexander, and that monarch, according to one account (Justin, xii. 5), gave him up for punishment to the brother of Darius. Plutarch, however, states that Alexander himself punished the offender in the following manner: He caused two straight trees to be bent, and one of his legs to be made fast to each; then suffering the trees to return to their former posture, his body was torn asunder by the violence of the recoil (Plut. Alex.). Arrian makes Alexander to have caused his nostrils to be slit, the tips of his ears to be cut off, and the offender, after this, to have been sent to Ecbatana, and put to death in the sight of all the inhabitants of the capital of Media. (references) | ||
| Literature | Bessus A cowardly, bragging captain, a sort of Bobadil (q.v.). (Beaumont and Fletcher: A King and no King.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
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