Ada

… (351–344), his wife and successor, Ada (344–341), and Pixodarus, the youngest son (341–334).

… resisted and was stormed, but Ada, the widow and sister of the satrap Idrieus, adopted Alexander as her son and, after expelling her brother Pixodarus, Alexander restored her to her satrapy. Some parts of Caria held out, however, until 332.

…two—Alexander reappointed the native princess Ada as satrap (his earlier satrapal appointees had been Macedonians). She was the sister of the great Mausolus, and her reinstatement prefigures Alexander’s shrewd subsequent policy of allowing local men and women to remain in post (though usually, like Ada herself, under the superintendence of…