- Xerxes the Great
- nounking of Persia who led a vast army against Greece and won the battle of Thermopylae but was eventually defeated (519-465 BC)• Syn: ↑Xerxes I• Instance Hypernyms: ↑king, ↑male monarch, ↑Rex
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