2 Maccabees 8:9

WEB(i) 9 And [Ptolemy ] quickly appointed Nicanor the [son ] of Patroclus, one of the [king’s ] Chief Friends, and sent him, in command of no fewer than twenty thousand of all nations, to destroy the whole race of Judea; and with him he joined Gorgias also, a captain and one that had experience in matters of war.