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fon of Tamus, or, as the Phoenicians wrote and 
pronounced the word, Tam, probably the tam of 
our infcription, was (83) admiral. This Tamus 
is faid to have been born at Memphis, and confe- 
quenetly by birth to have been an Egyptian, though 
he was probably of Phoenician extraction. Being a 
perfon of great valour, and uncommon fkill in ma- 
ritime affairs, he flrft lerved Tiffaphernes as a naval 
officer ; but was afterwards imployed by Cyrus, who 
rebelled again ft his brother Artaxerxes, and was 
killed in the battle (84) of Cunaxa, as chief com- 
mander of his fleet. He alfo had been appointed 
governor of onia by that prince. Tamus was trea- 
cheroully cut off, with all his family, except his fon 
Gaus, now the Perfian admiral, who ftaid behind 
in Afia, by Plammitichus, king of Egypt (83), 
about fourteen years before. Euagoras’s fleet of 200 
fail was defeated near Citium (86) by Gaus, the fon 
of Tamus, or Tam, with the lols of moft of his 
fhips; though Euagoras had, before this naval en- 
gagement, gained a (87) confiderable advantage over 
a part of the combined army of Perfians, Amathu- 
flans, Citieans, and Solians, almoft immediately af- 
ter the defcent bad been made. From this fhort 
narrative, extracted from writers of the heft repu- 
tation and authority, are naturally deducible the fol- 
lowing obfervations. 
(83) Id. ibid. 
(84) Xenoph. De Cyr. Expedit. p. 89. Oxon. I 735. Plutarch, 
in Artxtxcrx. p. 1014, 1015. Lutetise Parifiorum, 1624. 
(85) Diod. Sic. Bibl. Hiji. Lib. XIV. p. 415. 
(8b) Diod. Sic. Bibl. Hiji. Lib. XV. j\ 4 qo, 460. 
(87) Idem ibid. 
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