person
Praexaspes
A favored courtier of Cambyses who, having urged the king to drink less, watched in silence as Cambyses shot his son dead and even praised the shot.
Reading notes
- On Anger §3.14 Praexaspes
The courtier whose son Cambyses killed; he masked his grief and even praised the king's aim, an extreme example of anger suppressed under tyranny.