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                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:base="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><body xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><div type="textpart" subtype="alphabetic_letter" n="S"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="sibyrtius-bio-1" n="sibyrtius_1"><head><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">Siby'rtius</surname></persName></head><p>(<persName xml:lang="grc"><surname full="yes">Σιβύρτιος</surname></persName>), a Macedonian officer
      in the service of Alexander the Great, who was appointed by him, on his return from India
       (<date when-custom="-326">B. C. 326</date>), governor of the province of Carmania. This post he
      shortly after exchanged for the more important satrapy of Arachosia and Gedrosia, to which he
      succeeded on the death of Thoas (Arrian, <bibl n="Arr. An. 6.27">Arr. Anab. 6.27</bibl>; <bibl n="Curt. 9.10.20">Curt. 9.10.20</bibl>). At the death of <ref target="alexander-the-great-bio-1">Alexander</ref>, Sibyrtius, in common with most of the
      other governors of the remote eastern provinces, retained possession of his satrapy, which was
      again confirmed to him in the second partition at Triparadeisus, <date when-custom="-321">B. C.
       321</date> (<bibl n="Diod. 18.3">Diod. 18.3</bibl>; Justin, <bibl n="Just. 13.4">13.4</bibl>
      ; Arrian, apud <hi rend="ital">Phot.</hi> p. 71b.; Dexippus, <hi rend="ital">ibid.</hi> p.
      64b.). In the subsequent divisions which arose among the eastern satraps, Sibyrtius was one of
      those who supported Peucestes against Python and Seleucus, and afterwards accompanied that
      leader when he joined Eumenes in Susiana, <date when-custom="-317">B. C. 317</date>. His attachment
      was, however, to Peucestes, and not to Eumenes, and in the intrigues of the former against his
      commander-in-chief, Sibyrtius supported him so strongly that he incurred the especial
      resentment of Eumenes, who threatened to bring him to trial; a fate from which he only escaped
      by a hasty flight. But this open rupture with Eumenes had the advantage of securing him the
      favour of Antigonus, who, after the defeat of his rival, confirmed Sibyrtius in his satrapy,
      and placed under his command a large part of the select body of troops termed Argyraspids; a
      measure adopted with the ostensible object of guarding these provinces against the
      neighbouring barbarians, but in reality with a view to the gradual destruction of the troops
      in question, whose turbulent and disaffected spirit was well known. (<bibl n="Diod. 19.14">Diod. 19.14</bibl>, <bibl n="Diod. 19.23">23</bibl>, <bibl n="Diod. 19.48">48</bibl>; <bibl n="Polyaen. 4.6.18">Polyaen. 4.6.18</bibl>.) No further mention is found of Sibyrtius. </p><byline>[<ref target="author.E.H.B">E.H.B</ref>]</byline></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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