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Antiochus also, the great king of Asia, came against them to battle, having one hundred twenty elephants, with cavalry, chariots, and an exceedingly great army, and he was defeated by them.
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Verse 6. Twenty. Livy mentions only fifty-four. Florus allows that elephants were on both sides of the army, consisting of 300,000 foot. Appian admits but 70,000 men. Calmet.—Polybius (5.) asserts that Antiochus had 102 elephants against Ptolemy. In this war he might well have 120. Worthington.
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