Bessus
- A Bessian; v. Bessi. —
- II Βῆσσος, a viceroy of Bactria, the murderer of Darius Codomannus, Curt. 5, 8, 4; 5, 9, 2; Just. 12, 5, 10.
Bestia dicitur de Bessu, hoc est more feritatis.Confer
Bibuscus. Bessus, Ligo, vide in Becca.
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…vendidisses, securi percussisti, cum ille ad te legatus in castra venisset et tibi magna praesidia et auxilia a Bessis peditum equitumque polliceretur, neque eum solum sed etiam ceteros legatos qui simul venerant ; quorum omnium capita regi Cotyi…
Cicero, in Pisonem
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…accepit imperium, sed est in sedem Cyri beneficio Bagoae, castrati hominis, admissus ne vos magno labore credatis Bessum vacuum regnum occupaturum. Nos vero peccavimus, milites, si Dareum ob hoc vicimus, ut servo eius traderemus…
Curtius Rufus, Quintus, Historiae Alexandri Magni
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…. milia equitum erant, quorum auctoritatem ceteri sequebantur. Alexander Spitamenen et Catanen, a quibus ei traditus erat Bessus, haud dubius, quin eorum opera a redigi possent in potestatem, coercendo qui novaverant res, iussit accersi…
Curtius Rufus, Quintus, Historiae Alexandri Magni
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…commeatuum festinare cogebat itaque Philotas cum duobus milibus et C relictus, ut iusta fratri persolveret, ipse contendit ad Bessum. Iter facienti ei litterae adferuntur a finitimis satraparum, e quibus cognoscit Bessum quidem hostili animo occurrere cum exercitu…
Curtius Rufus, Quintus, Historiae Alexandri Magni
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…erant. Sed nomen Alexandri et fama, maximum in bello utique momen tum, pavidos in fugam avertit. Bessus vero et ceteri facinoris eius participes vehiculum Darei adsecuti coeperunt hortari eum, conscenderet equum et se hosti fuga eriperet…
Curtius Rufus, Quintus, Historiae Alexandri Magni
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…interfectorem regis sui, videbatur. Titulus facinori speciosus praeferebatur, vindicta Darei, sed fortunam, non scelus oderat Bessi. Namque ut Alexandrum numen Oxum superasse cоgnovit, Dataphernem et Catanen, quibus a Besso maxima fides habebatur ,…
Curtius Rufus, Quintus, Historiae Alexandri Magni
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…poterat, haud sane territus percontari Patrona causam consilii, quod adferret, coepit. Ille non ultra differendum ratus Bessus, inquit, et Nabarzanes insidiantur tibi, in ultimo discrimine es fortunae tuae et vitae, hic dies aut…
Curtius Rufus, Quintus, Historiae Alexandri Magni
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…. Hаc manu adiecta adit Dran gas bellicosa natio est. Satrapes erat Barzaentes, sceleris in regem suum particeps Besso is suppliciorum, quae meruerat, metu profugit in Indiam. Iam nonum diem stativa erant, cum externa vi…
Curtius Rufus, Quintus, Historiae Alexandri Magni
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…, Dahae totidem, et Arachosii Susianique quattuor milia explebant. Hos centum falcati currus sequebantur. Proximus quadrigis erat Bessus cum VIII milibus, equitibus item Bactrianis. Massagetae duobus milibus agmen eius claudebant. Pedites his plurium gentium non…
Curtius Rufus, Quintus, Historiae Alexandri Magni
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…itinere deleuit, negotio sibi in senatu extra ordinem dato. prouinciae praefuit non minore iustitia quam fortitudine ; namque Bessis ac Thracibus magno proelio fusis ita socios tractauit, ut epistulae M. Ciceronis extent, quibus Quintum fratrem eodem…
Suetonius, Lives
(Βῆσσος). A satrap of Bactria under Darius III., who, after the defeat of Darius by Alexander the Great at Arbela (B.C. 331), seized him with the intention of carrying him as a prisoner to his own satrapy. Being hotly pursued by the Macedonians, he murdered his royal captive and made his own escape. He was subsequently delivered into the hands of Alexander, and that monarch, according to one account (Justin, xii. 5), gave him up for punishment to the brother of Darius. Plutarch, however, states that Alexander himself punished the offender in the following manner: He caused two straight trees to be bent, and one of his legs to be made fast to each; then suffering the trees to return to their former posture, his body was torn asunder by the violence of the recoil ( Plut. Alex.). Arrian makes Alexander to have caused his nostrils to be slit, the tips of his ears to be cut off, and the offender, after this, to have been sent to Ecbatana, and put to death in the sight of all the inhabitants of the capital of Media.