Seventeen other sons, who survived him, were the issue of various concubines, chiefly--it would appear--Babylonians.
Xerxes II.

succeeded to the throne on the death of his father (B.C.
425), but reigned forty-five days only, being murdered after a festival, in which he had indulged too freely, by his half-brother, Secydianus or Sogdianus.

Secydianus enjoyed the sovereignty for little more than half a year, when he was in his turn put to death by another, brother, Ochus, who on ascending the throne took the name of Darius, and became known to the Greeks as Darius Nothus.
Darius Nothus had in his father's lifetime been made satrap of Hyrcania, and had married his aunt, Parysatis, a daughter of Xerxes.

He had already two children at his accession,--a daughter, Amestris, and a son, Arsaces, who succeeded him as Artaxerxes.

His reign, which lasted nineteen years, was a constant scene of insurrections and revolts, some of which were of great importance, since they had permanent and very disastrous consequences.