Peucestas
Πέστας
(Πέστας).
1. Son of Macartatus, a Macedonian officer in the service of Alexander, who was appointed by the king to command mand the troops left in Egypt, B. C. 331. (Arr. Anab. 5.6; Curt. 4.8.4.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.