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has gloss | eng: Echecrates the Thessalian, was employed by the ministers of Ptolemy Philopator when they were preparing for the Fourth Syrian War with Antiochus the Great in 219 BC. Echecrates was employed in the levying of troops and their arrangement into separate companies. He was entrusted with the command of the Greek forces in Ptolemy's pay, and of all the mercenary cavalry and, according to Polybius, did good service in the war, especially at the Battle of Raphia in 217 BC. |
lexicalization | eng: Echecrates of Thessaly |
instance of | (noun) a general officer of the highest rank general, full general |
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