Abrocomes

{{Short description|Son of King Darius I (died 480 BC)}}

{{Infobox royalty

| name = Abrocomes

| death_place = Thermopylae, Greece

| father = Darius I of Persia

| mother = Phratagune

}}

{{About||the 5th century BCE Persian satrap|Abrocomas}}

Abrocomes ({{langx|grc|Ὰβροκόμης}}) was a son of king Darius I of Persia and his wife Phratagune, who died with his full brother Hyperanthes in the battle of Thermopylae, while fighting over the body of Leonidas.Herodotus, Histories (Herodotus), vii.224{{Citation

| last = Smith

| first = William

| author-link = William Smith (lexicographer)

| contribution = Abrocomes

| editor-last = Smith

| editor-first = William

| title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

| volume = 1

| pages = 3

| publisher =

| place =

| year = 1867

| contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0012.html

| access-date = 2006-09-19

| archive-date = 2005-12-31

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20051231191519/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0012.html

| url-status = dead

}}

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