Ptolemaioi armies

[Dutchhoplite]

Hmmm, Bevan gives a lot of options so you can go either way :)

Bezalel Bar-Kochva writes in his book on the Maccabean Revolt that the Ptolemaic rulers accepted native Egyptians in their armies, first as lights (from Diodorus??) and later as phalangites (from Polybius??).