毋寡
大宛国王
毋寡（希臘語：Μαύης (Maúēs)；塞語：Mauakes[1][2]；意為「老虎」或「英雄」[3]；？—前101年），西漢時代大宛的國王。
漢武帝時代毋寡為大宛國王，他在貴山城建都，大宛北和康居、南和大月氏相接，出產汗血馬。張騫通西域之後，漢武帝遣使持千金和金馬到大宛請購買汗血馬。毋寡以為漢朝絕遠，不肯交易，漢使出言不遜，毋寡殺死漢使，取其財物。漢武帝於是派遣貳師將軍李廣利率軍十餘萬伐大宛，連戰四年，大宛人恐懼，殺死毋寡，獻馬三千匹。漢朝立昧蔡為王。
注釋
- ^ W. W. TARN. The Greeks In Bacteria And India （英語）.
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...
- ^ 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.
- ^ Harmatta 1999，第410頁.
參考文獻
- 《史記》大宛列傳
- Harmatta, János. Languages and scripts in Graeco-Bactria and the Saka Kingdoms. Harmatta, János; Puri, B. N.; Etemadi, G. F. (編). History of civilizations of Central Asia 2. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House. 1999. ISBN 978-8-120-81408-0.