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So, to sum up, the
Seleucid elephants on their right wing were alive and well (since they where victorious in that sector), whereas the ones on the left where avoided by the Ptolemies and probably withdrew. Meanwhile, the Ptolemaic elephants on their right wing had not even engaged (and so couldn't
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Polybius is in fact stating that it was most of the Ptolemaic elephants that were captured, not the Seleucid ones. By using the word "most", Polibyus was probably reffering to the 40 ones on the left
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elephants perished in the battle and two died of their wounds. Ptolemy had lost about fifteen hundred foot and seven hundred horse, killed; sixteen of his elephants were killed and most of them captured
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Further support for the assertion that is was not the seleucid elephants that where captured is the fact that the
Ptolemies intentionally avoided the Syrian elephants (
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have been captured), and the ones on the left where severely beaten and where probably mostly taken by the
Seleucids. Thus, I would put the losses to
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Of the elephants forty were posted on the left where
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Regarding the number of elephants lost by
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Antiochus: 5 elephants killed; Ptolemy: 16 elephants killed, almost 26 captured
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