Nectanebo II
As well as Herodotus, also other Greek authors such as Plato and Diodorus Siculus, reports that the "máchimoi" were deployed in many battles during the Late Period. Pharaoh Apries send them against Cyrene but after their defeat, they proclaimed general Amasis as pharaoh and served him against Apries in 570 BCE. Egyptian "máchimoi" also fought at Plataea in 479 BCE. During the 30th Dynasty, Egyptian "máchimoi" were widely used against the Achaemenid Empire: according to Diodorus, pharaoh Teos sent 80,000 of them in his expedition in the Near East in c.360/358 BCE and his nephew Nakhthorheb (the future Nectanebo II) was their commander. Nectanebo II himself later relied on these soldiers before the second Persian conquest of Egypt in 343 BCE.