Μαρδόνιος
Πολλοὺς ὁ πόλεμος δι' ὀλίγους ἀπώλεσεν → Bellum paucorum gratia aufert plurimos → Der Krieg vernichtet viele wegen weniger
Wikipedia EN
Mardonius (Ancient Greek: Μαρδόνιος Mardonios, Old Persian: 𐎶𐎼𐎯𐎢𐎴𐎡𐎹, Marduniya, literally: "the mild one"; died 479 BC) was a leading Persian military commander during the Persian Wars with Greece in the early 5th century BC who died at the Battle of Plataea. The Indoeuropean root "mild" is found in the gaulic tribe name MELDI "the mild ones" and in Slavic (Russian MOLODOi = young).
Russian (Dvoretsky)
Μαρδόνιος: ὁ Мардоний (командующий персидской армией во время первого похода на Грецию в 492 г. до н. э.; погиб в сражении при Платеях в 479 г. до н. э.) Her. etc.
Greco-Persian Names
APers. Marduniya (Bh. 4, 84). According to Justi, NB. 195, derived from *mardvan, mercy, Av. *merezvan, with suffix ya to the weak form mardun; but Bartholomae, Wb. 1151, connects with *marduna, “Winzer”, comparing NPers. mul, wine, Skt. mr̥dvīkā, vine; cf. also ZDMG 54, 359.
