When in RomeChapter 14
After the ambush in the pass, Antiochus retreated to the city of Belen to reorganize and allow his troops to recover. He didn’t leave there for three days. By then, he had troops atop every hill we could have used for an ambush and reached Alexandria late in the afternoon. However, we’d abandoned the city, not interested in trying to hold it. Our scouts noted that none of the elephant cavalry arrived with him, and that he had less than half the three thousand cataphract cavalry he started...