Megabates

• Bagapatēs

From Old Persian *Bagapātah via Ancient Greek Μεγαβάτης (Megabátēs).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɛˈɡa.ba.teːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [meˈɡaː.ba.t̪es]

Megabatēs m sg (genitive Megabatis); third declension

1. A Persian general, who sieged the island of Naxos

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• “Megabates”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• Rüdiger Schmitt, "MEGABATES" in Encyclopædia Iranica, January 1, 2000