There are five instances of Xerxes I in five chapters.
Normalized frequency of Xerxes I in the Essays
- Book 1 · Chapter 4 · ¶ 6.
How the Soul Releases Its Emotions on False Objects When Real Ones Are Missing
❯ of dice to make something pay for the loss of their money? Xerxes whipped the Hellespont sea, burnt it with hot irons, abused it in …
- Book 1 · Chapter 37 · ¶ 15.
How We Cry and Laugh at the Same Thing
❯ Artabanus coming by surprise once upon his nephew Xerxes, chid him for the sudden alteration of his countenance. He was considering …
- Book 2 · Chapter 3 · ¶ 45.
A Custom of the Island of Cea
❯ Boges, governor in Eion for King Xerxes, being besieged by the Athenian army under the conduct of Cimon, refused …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 358.
Apology for Raymond Sebond
❯ Amestris, the mother of Xerxes, being grown old, caused at once fourteen young men, of the best …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 139.
On Experience
❯ loath natural pleasures as to be too much in love with them. Xerxes was a coxcombical blockhead who, environed with all human delights, proposed a …