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Great King
Great King n. Ancient Greek History the king of Persia. [After ancient Greek βασιλεύς ὁ μέγας (Herodotus), itself after Old Persian xšāyaθiya vazṛka​, lit. ‘great king’, one of the titles of the Achaemenid kings from Darius I onwards.]
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1569 E. Fenton tr. P. Boaistuau Certaine Secrete Wonders Nature f. 77/v He receiued and entertained..the hoste of Xerxes, sonne of the greate king Darius.]
1576 A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. 168 (margin) The great king: mening the king of Persia.
1591 L. Lloyd Triplicitie of Triumphes sig. D3v Cyrus,..named the Great King.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 424 These Asians had a custom to call the King of Persia the Great King [Fr. le grand Roy; Gk. βασιλέα μέγαν].
1740 Hist. Wks. Learned Nov. 333 The Greeks, who considered the Persian Monarch, whom they styled The Great King, as their most formidable Enemy.
1799 J. Aikin et al. Gen. Biogr. I. 413/2 The return of the Greeks was soon succeeded by wars between the Lacedemonians and the Great King, or rather his lieutenants in Lesser Asia.
1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VIII. ii. lxii. 70 The Great King.
1921 H. R. James Our Hellenic Heritage I. ii. xi. 277 To many a brave man the might of the Great King seemed irresistible.
2010 Weekly Standard (Nexis) 3 May He somehow managed to sneak into Persia, hiding in a courtesan's wagon, and again sent a letter to the Great King.
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