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When Pharnabazos ' son, Artabazos II of Phrygia, wanted to regain his father's satrapy from their kinsman, Ariobarzanes refused.

Ultimately, in about 366 BC, Ariobarzanes joined an unsuccessful revolt of the satraps of western Anatolia against the Achamenian King Artaxerxes II ( Revolt of the Satraps ).

Several other satraps sided with Ariobarzanes, including Mausolus of Caria ( briefly ), Orontes I of Armenia, Autophradates of Lydia and Datames of Cappadocia.

The rebel satraps also received support from the pharaoh of Egypt, Teos as well as from some of the Greek city states, with the Spartan king Agesilaus II coming to his assistance with a mercenary force.

As signal of sympathy in the effort, Athens made Ariobarzanes and three of his sons as citizens of Athens.

Ariobarzanes was betrayed by his son Mithridates to his overlord, the Persian king.

who had Ariobarzanes crucified.