Oeobazus
(Οἰόβαζος).
1. A Persian, who, when Dareius Hystaspis was on the point of marching from Susa on his Scythian expedition, besought him to leave behind with him one of his three sons, all of whom were serving in the army. Dareius answered that, as Oeobazus was a friend, and had preferred so moderate a request, he would leave him all three. He then ordered them all to be put to death. (Her. 4.84; comp. 7.38, 39; Senec. de Ira, 3.16, 17.)
2. Father of Siromitres, who led the Paricanians in the Greek expedition of Xerxes. (Her. 7.68.)
3. A noble Persian, who, when the Greek fleet arrived in the Hellespont after the battle of Mycale (B. C. 479), fled from Cardia to Sestus, as the place of all most strongly fortified. Sestus was besieged by the Athenians under Xanthippus, and, on the famine becoming unendurable, Oeobazus, with most of the Persians, made his escape from the town; but he fell into the hands of the Apsinthian Thracians, and was sacrificed by them to Pleistorus, one of their gods (Her. 9.115, 118, 119). [E.E]
- his death there: Hdt. 9.115, Hdt. 9.119
- Darius' cruel treatment of him: Hdt. 4.84
- father of Siromitres: Hdt. 7.68