In the whole course of his long reign he seems never once to have adventured himself in the field against an enemy.
He made not a single attempt at conquest in any direction.

We have no evidence that he patronized either literature or the arts.

His peace with Athens was necessary perhaps, but disgraceful to Persia.

The disorders of the Court increased under his reign, from the license (especially) which he allowed the Queen-mother, who sported with the lives of his subjects.

The decay of the Empire received a fatal impulse from the impunity which he permitted to Megabyzus.
Like his father, Artaxerxes appears to have had but one legitimate wife.
This was a certain Damaspia, of whom nothing is known, except that she died on the same day as her husband, and was the mother of his only legitimate son, Xerxes.