A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

(Ἀρσίτης), the satrap of the Hellespontine Phrygia when Alexander the Great invaded Asia. After the defeat of the Persians at the Granicus, Arsites retreated to Phrygia, where he put an end to his own life, because he had advised the satraps to fight with Alexander, instead of retiring before him and laying waste the country, as Memnon had recommended. (Arrian, Arr. Anab. 1.13, 17; Paus. 1.29.7.)