The Greek text reads 'forty thousand men, and seven thousand horsemen.' Military force sizes in 1 Maccabees are systematically inflated beyond what the Seleucid Empire could field. This figure matches 1 Chronicles 19:18 (the force defeated by David) exactly. The Syriac version reads ten thousand infantry. At the Daphne parade shortly before this battle, the entire western Seleucid army numbered only about forty-one thousand infantry and forty-five hundred cavalry (Polybius 30.25), and the king took most of it east (3:37). Modern military analysis estimates the actual task force at roughly ten thousand troops.