Brewer's: Artaxerxes

called by the Persians Kai-Ardeshir, and surnamed diraz-dest (long-handed), because his right hand was longer than his left. The Romans translated diraz-dest into longi-manus ; the Greek Arta into Arde (“noble”).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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