Abrocomes

Abrocomes (Greek: Ὰβροκόμης) was a son of king Darius I of Persia and his wife Phratagune, who died with his full brother Hyperanthes in the battle of Thermopylae, while fighting over the body of Leonidas.[1][2]

References

Herodotus, Histories (Herodotus), vii.224
Smith, William (1867), "Abrocomes", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, p. 3

Further reading

The history of Herodotus, Volume 2 at Project Gutenberg

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