Alcetas
Alcetas (Alketas). Younger brother of Perdiccas (J 13.6.15; D 18.29.2; ASucc 1.21), hence probably also a son of Orontes of Orestes (cf. A 3.11.9; 6.28.4; AInd 18.5); possibly of Argead descent (C 10.7.8).30 Born ca. 355, he succeeded Perdiccas as taxiarch of the Lyncestians and Orestians, perhaps as early as 331/0, though Perdiccas retained nominal command of the taxis (cf. A 3.18.5). In 327 he campaigned with Craterus, Polyperchon, and Attalus in Paraetacene (A 4.22.1; cf. C 8.5.2), receiving the news of the abortive attempt to introduce proskynesis and the conspiracy of Hermolaus in a letter from Alexander (PA 55.6). During the Swat campaign of 327, Alcetas, Attalus, and Demetrius the hipparch attacked the town of Ora, while Coenus was besieging Bazira = Bir-Kot (A 4.27.5–6); the honor of taking the town appears to have been reserved for the King himself (A 4.27.9).31 At the Hydaspes Alcetas’ battalion, along with that of Polyperchon, remained in the main camp under