Numbers of troops in empires vs city states

[Arjos]

The Ptolemaic empire raised their largest army at Raphia and it had 70 000 men, The area of the Ptolemaic empire must have been 50 times the size of Attica

Don't forget that at Raphia, Ptolemaios didn't call up his Makedonioi and Agema, they were left throughtout the empire to prevent uprisings...

Seleucid and Ptolemaic empires tended to rely more on Hellenes as soldiers, and less on the native Iranians and Egyptians, who were far greater in number.

Not true, not even one bit...
Both levied and trained locals in the macedonian fashion or employed semi-professionals with their own fighting style...

They considered the Makedonioi superior, but they were vital for the assemblies and needed to be preserved at all costs...