Plutarch's Account of Cyrus' Death
According to Plutarch's Life of Artaxerxes II, a young Persian soldier named Mithridates accidentally killed Cyrus the Younger during the Battle of Cunaxa (Greek: Κούναξα). Unwisely, Mithridates boasted of this in the court and was then executed by scaphism.
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