ARIARATHES I., iir'-f-a-rd'-thes. r. A king of Cappadocia, gained much glory in Darius Ochus's expedition against Egypt. 2. Ariara thes II., nephew of Ariarathes I., was defeated and hanged, aged 8o, 322 B.G., by Alex ander's general Perdiccas. 3. Ariarathes III., son of Ariarathes II., after Perdiccas's death, recovered Cappadocia from Amyntas, the Macedonian general, and was succeeded by his son Ariamnes. 4. Ariarathes IV., suc ceeded his father Ariamnes, married Stratonice, daughter of Antilchus VI., Entheos, and died 220 B.C. 5. Ariarathes V., succeeded his father Ariarathes IV., married Antiochia, daughter of King Antiochus, whom he assisted against the Romans, and at whose death he had to buy off the Romans from invading his king dom. 6. Ariarathes VI., PHILOPATOR, Phi/ CV-a-tor, succeeded his father, Ariarathes V , 166 B.C.: by aid of the Romans he held his throne against a favourite of King Demetrius of Syria ; he was killed in war with the usurper Aristonicus of Pergamus, and his wife Laodice murdered five of his six children. 7. Ariara
thes VII., who alone of the children of Ariara thes VI. escaped being murdered, married Laodice, sister of Mithridates Eupator ; he was murdered by an illegitimate brother, and his wife married King Nicomedes, of Bithynia, who received Cappadocia ; but Mithridates declared war against him. 8. Ariarathes VIII., son of Ariarathes VII., was make king by his uncle Mithridates, against whom he declared war, but was assassinated. 9. Ariara thes IX., brother of Ariarathes VIII., was made king by the Cappadocians, but expelled by Mithridates, who placed his own son on the throne : he died of a broken heart, and on the arbitration of the Romans, Ariobarzants was placed on the throne so. Ariarathes X., suc ceeded his brother Ariobarzanes on the Cappa docian throne, but was deposed by M. Antony for Sisenna, eldest son of GlaphiSra : he re covered it for a while, but soon had to yield it to Archelaus, second son of Glaphyra, 36 B.C.