(), one of the generals in the army of Xerxes.
When Xerxes had returned to Asia after the battle of Salamis, Artayntes, Ithamitres, and some
other generals, sailed to Samos in order to watch the lonians, and in the hope that the
land-force under Mardonius in northern Greece might still be successful. But after the battles
of Plataeae and Mycale, in B. C. 479, Artayntes and Ithamitres took
to flight. While Artayntes was passing through Asia, he was met by Masistes, the brother of
Xerxes, who censured him severely for his cowardly flight. Artayntes, enraged, drew his sword
and would have killed Masistes, had he not been saved by Xeinagoras, a Greek, who seized
Artayntes at the moment and threw him on the ground, for which act he was liberally rewarded.
(Herod, 8.130, 9.102, 107.)