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Zeuxis or Antiochus (11-12)

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The Galatians lost many killed in the great slaughter. The rest were taken prisoner, except for a very few who escaped to the mountains in time. Antiochuss Macedonian contingent raised the Paean and gathering round him crowned him king of glorious victory with acclamation. Antiochus is said to have wept as he addressed his troops. Men,” he said, we owe our lives to these sixteen animals; so let us rather feel shame. For if the strangeness of what they saw had not thrown the enemy into confusion, what should we have been compared with them?” Then he ordered them to decorate the trophy with a carved elephant and nothing else.

It is time for me to consider whether my army is

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