Payton (Peitohon) (? – 312 BCE) – Macedonian military leader, one of the seven bodyguards (somatophilix) of Aleksandar ⅲ Macedonian. He was awarded the management of Satrapy India (324 BCE), and after the death of Alexander ⅲ Macedonian became the Satrap of Media. Not.: Plutarzhi, Vitala Parallele, Lipsiae, 1921; Arriani, Anabasis, Lipsia, 1907; L. Tsortu Rufi, Historiaum Alejandri Magnia Machadonis, Lipsiae, 1893; Diodors, Biblehead Historica, Leithzig, 1896. Lit.: F. Papazoglu, History of the Hellenistic period, Skopje, 1995. K. M.R. Boro Pejcinov, a caricature – no claws
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