or ARTAXERES, the husband of Esther; and according to archbishop Usher and F. Calmet, the scripture name for Darius, the son of Hystaspes, king of Persia; though Scaliger will have Xerxes to be the husband of Esther, or the Ahasuerus of scripture; and Dr Prideaux believes him to be Artaxerxes Longimanus. See History of Persia.