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Pharnaspes was an Achaemenid, though not of the direct royal line; it was usual for Persian kings to marry members of their own family (e.g. Darius and Atossa, daughter of Cyrus). H. lays stress on the name and lineage of the mother of Cambyses, because the Egyptians made him the son of an Egyptian princess (iii. 1 n.).

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