Ziboetes

or Zipoetes (Ζιβοίτης or Ζιποίτης).

1. King of Bithynia, the son of Bas. He reigned for forty-eight years (B. C. 326-278). He carried on successful wars with Lysimachus and Antiochus, the son of Selencus. (Memnon, ap. Plot. Cod. 224, p. 228, ed. Bekker.) In B. C. 315 he carried on a war against Astacus and Chalcedon. (Diod. 19.60.) He founded a city which was called Zipoetium after him at the foot of Mount Lyperus. He lived to the age of seventy-six, and left behind him four children, the eldest of whom, Nicomedes, succeeded him. (Memnon, l.c.)

2. Son of the preceding, who established himself in a part of Bithynia, and against whom Nicomedes carried on war in B. C. 277. It was for the purpose of overpowering him that Nicomedes called in the aid of the Gauls. ( Liv. 38.16; comp. Clinton, Fasti Hellen. vol. iii. p. 411.)

The name Tiboetes [Tiboetes] is by some corrected to Ziboetes. [C.P.M]