Amyntas (son of Andromenes)

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Amyntas (

Egypt; and he returned with them in the ensuing year, when the king was in possession of Susa.[3]

After the execution of

Polemon had fled from the camp when the latter was apprehended,[4] or according to Curtius,[5] when he was given up to the torture. Amyntas defended himself and his brothers ably,[5] and their innocence being further established by Polemon's reappearance,[6] they were acquitted. Some little time after, Amyntas was killed by an arrow at the siege of a village.[4] It is doubtful whether the son of Andromenes is the Amyntas mentioned by Curtius[7] as commander of a portion of the Macedonian troops at the Battle of Issus in 333; or again, the person spoken of as leading a brigade at the forcing of the Cilician Gates in 331.[8] But Amyntas was a common name among the Macedonians.[9]

References

Notes

  1. Anabasis Alexandri, iii. 27
  2. ^ Arrian, i. 17
  3. ^ Arrian, iii. 11, 16; Curtius, iv. 6, v. 1, vii. 1
  4. ^ a b Arrian, iii. 27
  5. ^ a b Curtius, vii. 1
  6. ^ Curtius, vii. 2; Arrian, iii. 27
  7. ^ Curtius, iii. 9
  8. ^ Curtius, v. 4
  9. ^ Curtius, iv. 13, v. 2, viii. 2, vi. 7, 9

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