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                <passage>
                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:base="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><body xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><div type="textpart" subtype="alphabetic_letter" n="M"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="melancomas-bio-1" n="melancomas_1"><head><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">Mela'ncomas</surname></persName></head><p>(<persName xml:lang="grc"><surname full="yes">Μελαγκόμας</surname></persName>), an Ephesian, and
      NICO'MACHUS (<foreign xml:lang="grc">Νικόμαχος</foreign>), a Rhodian, were the two men
      whom <hi rend="smallcaps">ACHAEUS</hi>, the rebellious general of Antiochus the Great,
      employed to carry on his negotiations with Ptolemy IV. (Philopator), as well as all his other
      transactions with foreign powers. It was chiefly through recommendatory letters from
      Melancomas and Nicomachus that Bolis, of whose treachery they had no suspicion, was enabled to
      gain, to a great extent, the confidence of Achaeus, and so to betray him to Antiochus. in
       <date when-custom="-214">B. C. 214</date>. (<bibl n="Plb. 8.17">Plb. 8.17</bibl>, <bibl n="Plb. 8.18">18</bibl>, <bibl n="Plb. 8.20">20</bibl>. 21.) </p><byline>[<ref target="author.E.E">E.E</ref>]</byline></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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