Itaque Aegypto praefecit Aeschylum Rhodium et Peucesten Macedonem, quattuor milibus militum in praesidium regionis eius datis, claustra Nili fluminis Polemonem tueri iubet; xxx ad hoc triremes datae.
Therefore he put Aeschylus the Rhodian and Peucestes the Macedonian in charge of Egypt, giving them 4000 soldiers for the defence of that region, and ordered Polemon to defend the mouths of the Nile; for this purpose thirty triremes were given.
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