Pharandates

Pharanda'tes

(Φαρανδάτης a Persian, son of Teaspes, commanded the Marians and Colchians in the expedition of Xerxes against Greece. (Her. 7.79.) He is mentioned again by Herodotus (9.76), as having carried off by violence a woman of Cos, and made her his concubine. She was rescued by the Greeks after the battle of Plataea. [E.E]