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== Royal agema ==
The term ''somatophylakes'' is also used to refer to a member of the Royal Hypaspists, the ''agema'', who acted as the King's bodyguard in battle. The Royal Pages would expect to begin their military service in this unit: thus Pausanias, [[Philip II of Macedon|Philip II]]'s assassin was a member of this corps, not one of the Seven Bodyguards.
W Heckel<ref>'Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great' p.262 and note 638</ref> believes that the Ptolemy* given above for 336 BC was not one of the Seven but commander of this unit. He was killed at Halicarnassus in 334 BC and succeeded by Admetus. The latter was killed at Tyre in 332 BC and appears to have been succeeded by [[Hephaestion]].
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