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Often appears with: xenoetas · tigris crossing · strategy and the aims of war · siege of seleucia · siege and fortification · molon revolt · marsyas gorge · forged letters · coele-syria abandoned · civil war and rebellion
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Antiochus III shifts from the Coele-Syria plan to confronting Molon, sending the Achaean Xenoetas, marching through Apameia and the Marsyas gorge, and withdrawing when Xenoetas is defeated.
[Sidenote: Molon takes up arms.] +45.+ Being masters, then, of a territory of proportions worthy of a kingdom, his great power had made Molon from the first a formidable enemy: but when the royal generals appeared to have abandoned the country to him, and his own forces were elated at the successful issue of their first hopes, the terror which he inspired became absolute, and he was believed by the Asiatics to be ir…