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Xenon (in Greek Ξενων) was an officer in the service of Antiochus III the Great (223 - 187 BC), who was sent, together with Theodotus Hemiolius, against Molon in 221 BC. They retired before Molon under the shelter of the towns.1
References
Polybius; Histories, Evelyn S. Shuckburgh (translator); London - New York, (1889)
Smith, William (editor); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "Xenon (2)", Boston, (1867)
Note
1 Polybius, v. 42, 43
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