HABRADATE. Abradate was king of Susa (late fifth-early fourth century B.C.), husband of Panthea, and an ally of Cyrus the Great. When her husband was killed in a battle against the Egyptians (c. 401 B.C.), Panthea stabbed her bosom and mingled her blood with his before she died (Xenophon, Cyropaedia VII.l.29-32, VII.iii.3-14). Jerome tells the story in Epistola adversus Jovinianum (Letter Against Jovinian) I.45 (PL 23: 275).

Dorigen thinks that Habradate's wife is an exemplary figure of wifely fidelity, FranklT 1414-1418. [Dorigen]

The form is an inversion of Latin Abradate; Latin initial h was not pronounced.