毋寡

大宛国王

毋寡希臘語Μαύης (Maúēs);塞語:Mauakes[1][2];意为“老虎”或“英雄”[3];?—前101年),西汉时代大宛的国王。

汉武帝时代毋寡为大宛国王,他在贵山城建都,大宛北和康居、南和大月氏相接,出产汗血马张骞西域之后,汉武帝遣使持千金和金马到大宛请购买汗血马。毋寡以为汉朝绝远,不肯交易,汉使出言不逊,毋寡杀死汉使,取其财物。汉武帝于是派遣贰师将军李广利率军十余万伐大宛,连战四年,大宛人恐惧,杀死毋寡,献马三千匹。汉朝立昧蔡为王。

注释

  1. ^ W. W. TARN. The Greeks In Bacteria And India (英语). But somewhere about 80 B.c. they started northward from Abiria up the Indus to attack the Greek centres in the north, under a leader whose name in Greek was Maues or Mauakes, in Kharoshthi Moa or Moga (p. 4^6). The same name, Mauakes (Mu-ku’a), had been borne by the Saca king of Ferghana in loi b.c. (p. 308); if I am right in my belief that the Saca rulers of Ferghana at this time belonged to the Sai-wang... 
  2. ^ K. Walton Dobbins. Vonones, Maues and Hermaios The Imperial Coinage of Mithradates II. East and West (Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente (IsIAO)). December 1980, 30: 31–53. 
  3. ^ Harmatta 1999,第410頁.

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