Tachos

, or Tachus , a king of Egypt, in the reign of Artaxerxes Ochus, against whom he sustained a long war. He was a isted by the Greeks, but his confidence in Agesilaus king of Lacedæmon proved fatal to him. Chabrias the A then i an had been entrusted with the fleet of the Egyptian monarch, and Agesilaus was left with the command of the mercenary army. The Lacedæmonian disregarded his engagements, and by joining with Nectanebus, who had revolted from Tachus, he ruined the affairs of the monarch, and obliged him to save his life by flight. Some observe that Agesilaus acted with that duplicity to avenge himself upon Tachus, who had insolently ridiculed his short and deformed stature. The expectations of Tachus had been raised by the fame of Agesilaus; but when he saw the lame monarch, he repeated on the occasion the fable of the mountain which brought forth a mouse, upon which Agesilaus replied with asperity, though he called him a mouse, yet he soon should find him to be a lion. Cornel i us Nepos , Agesilaus.