e/Ptolemy (son of Philip)

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has gloss	eng: Ptolemy son of Philip, an officer who commanded the leading squadron of Macedonian cavalry that of Socrates at the passage of the Granicus ,Arr. Anab. i. 14. It is supposed by Gronovius (ad Arr. I. c.) and by Droysen, that he is the same who was afterwards left by Alexander with a force of 3000 foot and 200 horse to defend the province of Caria, and who subsequently, together with Asander the governor of Lydia, defeated the Persian general Orontobates, 332 BC. (Arr. ib. i. 23. ii. 5.)
lexicalization	eng: Ptolemy
instance of	c/Generals of Alexander the Great