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 72 HISTORY OF GREECE. The army, when reviewed on the Asiatic shore after its cross- in"-, presented a total of 30,000 infantry, and 4500 cavalry, thus distributed : — Infantry. Macedonian phalanx and hypaspists 1 2,000 Allies 7,000 Mercenaries 5,000 Under the coramand of Parmenio 24,000 Odrj'ssians, Triballi (both Thracians), and Illyrians 5,000 Agri&nes and archers 1 ,000 Total infantry 30,000 Cavalry. Macedonian heavy — under Philotas son of Parmenio 1,500 Thessalian (also heavy) — under Kallas 1,500 Miscellaneous Grecian — under Erigyius 600 Thracian and Pceonian (light) — under Kassander 900 Total Cavalry 4,500 Such seems the most trustworthy enumeration of Alexander's first invading army. There were however other accounts, the highest of which stated as much as 43,000 infantry with 4000 cavalry.^ Besides these troops, also, there must have been an ' Diodor. xvii. 17. Plutarch (Alexand. 15) says that the highest num hers which he had read of, were, — 43,000 infantry with 5000 cavalry : the lowest numbers, 30,000 infantry with 4000 cavalry (assuming the correction of Sintenis, rerpaKicrxi^i-ovg in place of nevTaKiaxMovc, to be well founded, as it probably is — compare Plutarch, Fort. Alex. M. i. p. 327). According to Plutarch (Fort. Al. M. p. 327), both Ptolemy and Aristo- bulus stated the number of infantry to be 30,000 ; but Ptolemy gave the cavalry as 5000, Aristobulus, as only 4000. Nevertheless Arrian — who professes to follow mainly Ptolemy and Aristobulus, whenever they agree — states the number of infantry as " not much more than 30,000 ; the cavalry as more than 5000 " (Exp. Al. i. 11, 4). Anaximenes alleged 43,000 infan- try, with 5500 cavalry. Kallisthenes (ap. Polybium. xii. 19) stated 40,000 infantry, with 4500 cavalry-. Justin (xi. 6) gives 32,000 infiintry, with 4500 cavalry. My statement in the text follows Diodorus, who stands distinguished, by ' recounting not merely the total, but the component items besides. In regard to the total of infantry, he agrees with Ptolemy and Aristobulus : as to cavalry, his statement is a mean between the two.