Glaucias
3. (Perhaps the same with the preceding). A follower of Cassander, whom he entrusted with the charge of Roxana and her son Alexander when he confined them as prisoners in the citadel of Amphipolis. After the peace of B. C. 311, Cassander sent secret orders to Glaucias to put both his capwas for tives to death, which instructions be immediately obeyed. (Diod. 19.52, 105.)
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