Darius III., surnamed Codomannus, king of the Persians, a handsome man and a virtuous; could not cope with Alexander of Macedon, but was defeated by him in successive engagements at Granicus, Issus, and Arbela; was assassinated on his flight by Bessus (q.v.), one of his satraps, in 330 B.C.; with him the Persian empire came to an end.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Darius II. * Darjeeling