A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Ada, daughter of Hecutomnus
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ADA,
Daughter of Hecutomnus, king of Caria, who married her brother Hidrieus. After her husband's death she succeeded to the throne of Caria, but was expelled by her younger brother, Pixodarus, who, in order to maintain himself in his usurption, gave his daughter in marriage to a Persian lord called Orontobates; and he afterwards became king of Caria, and defended Halicamassus against Alexander the Great. The revolutions which happened at that time proved favourable to Ada; she implored the protection of the conqueror Alexander against Orontobates, the usurper of her kingdom. Alexander gave her a very kind reception, and restored her to the authority she had formerly enjoyed over all Caria, after he had then the city of Halicamassus.