…Ptolemy's disreputable associate Sosibius and the Ptolemaic…

…Ptolemy's disreputable associate Sosibius and the Ptolemaic court enter into delaying negotiations with the enemy, while the Ptolemaic army is reorganized and intensively drilled.

The threat that is sufficiently grave that, for the first time under the Ptolemaic regime, native Egyptians are enrolled into the infantry and cavalry and trained in phalanx tactics.