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Raphia (Israel) (search for this): book 5, chapter 82
Dispositions For the Battle of Raphia
After being encamped opposite each other for five
Disposition of the two armies for the battle of Rhaphia.
days, the two kings resolved to bring matters
to the decision of battle. And upon
Ptolemy beginning to move his army outside
its camp, Antiochus hastened to do the
same. Both formed their front of their phalanx and men
armed in the Macedonian manner. But Ptolemy's two
wings were formed as follows:—Polycrates, with the cavalry
under his command, occupied the left, and between him and
the phalanx were Cretans standing close by the horsemen;
next them came the royal guard;Agema. See note on 5, 25. then the peltasts under
Socrates, adjoining the Libyans armed in Macedonian fashion.
On the right wing was Echecrates of Thessaly, with his division
of cavalry; on his left were stationed Gauls and Thracians;
next them Phoxidas and the Greek mercenaries, extending to
the Egyptian phalanx. Of the elephants forty were on the left
wing, where Ptolemy was
Thessaly (Greece) (search for this): book 5, chapter 82