α164Ἄγγαρος
angaros, courier
This is what the Persians used to call the royal messengers. "He sent one of his most trusty men as messenger [a)/ggaros] to the Babylonian" - because of the nobleman Parsondes.
Ἄγγαρος· οὕτως ἐκάλουν οἱ Πέρσαι τοὺς βασιλέων ἀγγέλους. πέμπει τῶν πιστοτάτων ἄγγαρον παρὰ τὸν Βαβυλώνιον διὰ Παρσώνδην τὸν ἄριστον.
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