[265] See Professor Mahaffy, Greek Life and Thought, p. 405, who points out that this refers to the Egyptian troops especially, whose old military castes (see Herod. 2, 164-6) though not extinct had forgotten their old skill. In a sense, however, it applies to both kinds of troops; for they had to be trained to act together, as is shown in the next chapter.
[266] See above, ch. 5 note.
[267] Two different towns of this name have already been mentioned (ch. 48, 52). This Dura appears to be in Phoenicia; but nothing is known of it.
[268] Seleucus I., B.C. 306-280. Antigonus, the One-eyed, in B.C. 318, occupied Coele-Syria and Phoenicia after a victory over Perdiccas. Diodor. Sic. 18, 43.
[269] Battle of Ipsus, B.C. 301.
[270] See ante, ch. [40]-2, [57]-8.
[271] Antiochus Hierax, son of Antiochus II.
[272] Laodice was the sister of the wife of Antiochus (5, [43]) and a daughter of King Mithridates (8, [22]-23).
[273] Selge was said to be a colony of the Lacedaemonians. Strabo 13, 7, 3.
[274] Called Barathra. See Strabo, 17, 1, 21.