MEMNON OF RHODES

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MEMNON OF RHODES , brother of Mentor (q.v.), with whom he entered the services of the rebellious satrap Artabazus of

Phrygia

PHRYGIA

, who married his

sister

SISTER

. Mentor after the conquest of

Egypt

EGYPT

rose high in the favour of the king, and Memnon, who had taken

refuge

REFUGE

with Artabazus at the Macedonian

court

, became a zealous adherent of the Persian king; he assisted Mentor in subduing the rebellious satraps and dynasts in

Asia

ASIA

Minor

, and succeedei him as general of the Persian troops. In the pseudo-Aristotelian Oeconomica, ii. 28, stories are told of his methods of obtaining money ,and evading his obligations; thus he extorted a large sum of money from the conquered inhabitants of Lampsacus and cheated his soldiers out of a

part

PART

of their pay. He owned a large territory in eastern Troas (Arrian i. 17, 8; Strabo xiii. 587). He gained some successes against Philip II. of Macedon in 336 (Diod. xvii. 6; Polyaen. v. 44, 4, 5) and commanded the Persian army against Alexander's invasion. Convinced that it was impossible to meet Alexander in a pitched battle, his plan was to lay

waste

WASTE (O. Fr. wast, guast, gast, gaste; Lat. vastus, vast, desolate)

the country and retire into the interior, meanwhile organizing resistance on sea (where the Persians were far superior to the Macedonians) and carrying the war into

Greece

GREECE

. But his advice was overridden by the Persian satraps, who forced him to fight at the Granicus. After his defeat he tried to organize the maritime war and occupied the Greek islands, but in the beginnipg of 333 he fell ill and died (Arrian i1. 1, I). (ED. M.)

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