06-13-2013, 11:01 PM
Peter, Antiochos was at the head of the cavalry on the Seleucid left, not the phalanx, so in effect you are saying the same thing I said. And of course not all Roman legions were put to flight but a part of them was although we do not know how many, could have been a legion, could have been more or less. The Macedonian phalanx at Magnesia was deprived of both its flank support, the left because Antiochos had advanced too far ahead and the other because they had fled after the tumult the chariots had caused and then simply retreated while, according to Appian and Livy does not actually write anything that would suggest something different, with the Romans posed against them keeping at a distance. So, as my point was, the phalanx was not beaten by the Roman infantry line, as was the question, but the battle was lost and in the process they were also defeated as they were unable to retreat to safety.
