satrap
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Tyrant, Satrap, Pharaoh, Khan, Caesar, Emperor, Tsar and Kaiser have left their sulphurous trail across the pages of history.
From Time Magazine Archive
If we may judge by the eye, the soft life of a Persian Satrap has not quite exhausted the native Roman vigor.'
From Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra by Ware, William
The Satrap answered with a submissive bend of the head, and separated with a few attendants from the main body of the Emperor's train.
From Waverley Novels — Volume 12 by Scott, Walter, Sir
Now go to the Satrap Idernes and say to him that if he would have speech with the bearer of the King's seal which all must obey, he will find him at Memphis.
From The Ancient Allan by Haggard, Henry Rider
"Yes, O Prince, since those gems are a great possession with which any Satrap could buy a larger satrapy."
From The Ancient Allan by Haggard, Henry Rider
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Mesopotamia - Introductory
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Chapter 7: The Ancient Greeks
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