Nicanor
8. A friend and general of Ptolemy, the son of Lagus, who was despatched by the Egyptian king in B. C. 320, with an army to reduce Syria and Phoenicia; an object which he quickly effected, taking prisoner Laomedon, the governor of those provinces. (Diod. 17.43.)
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