It is stated that 50,000 infantry were killed on that day and 3000 of the cavalry;1500 were made prisoners and 15 elephants captured with their drivers. Many of the Romans were wounded, but there actually fell not more than 300 infantry, 24 cavalry and 25 of the army of Eumenes.24
The results of the battle.-After plundering the enemy's camp the Romans returned to their own with a large amount of .booty;the ' next day they despoiled the bodies of those killed and collected the prisoners.
Delegates came from Thyatira and Magnesia ad Sipylum to make the surrender of their cities. Antiochus, accompanied in his flight from the field by a small number of his men, and joined by more on the road, arrived at Sardis about midnight with a fairlv numerous bodv of troops. On learning that his son 6eieucus witn. some oi rns irienas nab gone as iar as ADamea. he too, with his wife and daughter, started for the same city, after handing over the defence of Sardis to Xenon and appointing Timon governor of Lydia. The townsmen and the soldiers in the citadel ignored their authority and mutually agreed to send delegates to the consul.
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battle of Magnesia — a candidate entry
The History of Rome, Livy — translated by Rev. Canon Roberts, 1912
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