My'rmidon
(
Μυρμιδών), an Athenian, who commanded a force of 10,000 men, which formed part of the armament sent by Ptolemy, the son of Lagus, under his brother Menelaus, to effect the reduction of Cyprus, B. C. 315.
He was afterwards despatched to the assistance of Asander in Caria, against the generals of Antigonus. (
Diod. 19.62.)
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