A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Parysatis
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PARYSATIS,
Wife of Darius Nothus, who ascended the throne of Persia in the year 423 B. C, was the mother of Artaxerxes Mnemon and Cyrus. Her partiality for Cyrus led her to commit the greatest injustice and barbarities; and she poisoned Statira the wife of Artaxerxes.