Lagoras

Lagoras(Greek:Λαγόρας) was aCretansoldier of fortune,who, when in the service ofPtolemy IV Philopator,king ofEgypt,was sent byNicolaus,Ptolemy's general, to occupy the passes ofMount LebanonatBerytus,and to check there the advance ofAntiochus III the Great,who was marching uponPtolemais,219 BC. He was, however, defeated and dislodged from his position by theSyrianking.

In 215 BC, in the war of Antiochus againstAchaeus,we find Lagoras in the service of the former; and it was through his discovery of an unguarded part of the wall ofSardis,that Antiochus was enabled to take the city, Lagoras being himself one of the select party who forced their way into the town over the portion of the wall in question.

References

• Polybius;Histories,Evelyn S. Shuckburgh(translator);London-New York,(1889)
• Smith, William(editor);Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology,"Lagoras",Boston(1867)