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Zopyros

 

Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek
Other Scripts: Ζωπυρος (Ancient Greek)

Means "glowing" in Greek. This was the name of a Persian nobleman who aided his king Darius in the capture of Babylon. He did this by mutilating himself and then going to the Babylonians claiming that it had been Darius who did it to him. After gaining their trust he betrayed them.

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