The Ariaspians: Hayır Severler (εὐεργέτης/Benefactors)
“قَالُوا يَاذَا الْقَرْنَيْنِ إِنَّ
يَأْجُوجَ وَمَأْجُوجَ مُفْسِدُونَ فِي الْأَرْضِ فَهَلْ
نَجْعَلُ لَكَ خَرْجًا عَلَى أَنْ تَجْعَلَ
بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَهُمْ سَدًّا (94) قَالَ مَا مَكَّنِّي فِيهِ رَبِّي خَيْرٌ فَأَعِينُونِي
بِقُوَّةٍ أَجْعَلْ بَيْنَكُمْ وَبَيْنَهُمْ رَدْمًا (95)”
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“CHAPTER XXVII.
Treatment of Amyntas.—The Ariaspians.
“He now arrived in the land of the people formerly called
Ariaspians, but afterwards named Euergetae, because they assisted Cyrus, son of
Cambyses, in his invasion of Scythia.492 Alexander treated these people, whose ancestors had been
serviceable to Cyrus, with honour; and when he ascertained that the men not
only enjoyed a form of government unlike that of the other barbarians in that
part of the world, but laid claim to justice equally with the best of
the Greeks, he set them free, and gave them besides as much of the adjacent
country as they asked for themselves; but they did not ask for much.”
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/46976/46976-h/46976-h.htm#FNanchor_492
“ Şimdi, önceleri Ariaspians
olarak adlandırılan, ancak daha sonra Euergetae
(Hayırsever) olarak adlandırılan halkın ülkesine geldi, çünkü Cambyses
oğlu Cyrus'un İskit istilasına yardım ettiler.”
“81 1 After his hands
were free of this affair and he had settled things in Dranginê, Alexander
marched with his army against a people who used to be called Arimaspians but
are now known as Benefactors for the following reason. That Cyrus who had
transferred the rule from the Medes to the Persians was once engaged in a
campaign in the desert and running out of provisions was brought into extreme
danger, so that for lack of food the soldiers were constrained to
eat each other, when the Arimaspians appeared bringing thirty thousand wagons
laden with provisions. Saved from utter despair, then, Cyrus gave them
exemption from taxation and other marks of honour, and abolishing their former
appellation, named them Benefactors”
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/17D*.html
Diodorus'un anlattığına göre, Pers İmparatorluğu'nun kurucusu,
erzakları bittiğinde 'çölde' sefer yapıyordu. Yemek için çaresiz kalan
askerleri birbirlerini yemeye başladılar. Diodorus'un açıklayamadığı
nedenlerden dolayı Arimaspyalılar, yiyecekle dolu en az otuz bin araba ile
Cyrus'un yardımına geldiler. Şükran olarak, Cyrus kabileyi vergi ödemekten
muaf tutmanın yanı sıra ona 'başka onur işaretleri' de verdi. Ayrıca
isimlerini kaldırarak yerine 'Hayırseverler' koydu.
“İsa onlara, “Ulusların kralları, kendi uluslarına
egemen kesilirler. İleri gelenleri de kendilerine iyiliksever (ευεργεται) unvanını
yakıştırırlar" dedi.” (İncîl, Luka’ya Göre: 22:25).
“فَقَالَ لَهُمْ: «مُلُوكُ الأُمَمِ يَسُودُونَهُمْ وَالْمُتَسَلِّطُونَ عَلَيْهِمْ يُدْعَوْنَ مُحْسِنِينَ. ” (ASVD).