Baeton

Baeton (Ancient Greek: Βαίτων) was a man of ancient Macedonia who lived in the 4th century BCE. He was a contemporary of Alexander the Great, and participated in his campaigns, with his colleague Diognetus [ca], as a bematist (ὁ Ἀλεξάνδρου βηματιστής) or "road engineer", that is, someone who measures distances in his marches.^[1][2][3][4]

He wrote a work upon the subject entitled The Stations of Alexander's March (σταθμοί τῆς Ἀλεξάνδρου πορείας). Aside from a couple of stray quotes in the Natural History of Pliny the Elder, and the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus, this work is lost, and no record exists of its contents.^[5][6][7][8] Pliny mentions that a copy of the surveys of Baeton and Diognetus was given by Zenobius, treasurer of Alexander the Great, to the geographer Patrocles.^[9]