Xerxes Ii.
(
Ξέρξης), the only legitimate son of Artaxerxes I., succeeded his father as king of Persia in B. C. 425, but was murdered after a short reign of only two months by his half-brother Sogdianus or Secundianus, who thus became king. (
Diod. 12.71; Ctesias,
Pers. 100.44.)