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1 falanx
I.In gen.A.Lit., a band of soldiers, a host drawn up in close order ( poet.):B. II.Agamemnoniae phalanges,
Verg. A. 6, 489:densae,
id. ib. 12, 662:Tuscorum,
id. ib. 12, 551:animosa (said of eight brothers fighting together),
id. ib. 12, 277:junctae umbone phalanges,
Juv. 2, 46.—In partic.A.Among the Athenians and Spartans, a division of an army drawn up in battle array, a battalion, phalanx, Nep. Chabr. 1, 2; id. Pelop. 4, 2.—B.The Macedonian order of battle, a Macedonian phalanx (a compact parallelogram of fifty men abreast and sixteen deep), Nep. Eum. 7, 1; Curt. 3, 2, 13; Liv. 31, 39, 10; cf.:2.quae (cohortes) cuneum Macedonum (phalangem ipsi vocant) perrumperent,
id. 32, 17, 11:fecerat et falangem triginta milium hominum,
Lampr. Alex. Sev. 50, 5.—An order of battle of the Gauls and Germans, forming a parallelogram:Helvetii confertissimā acie, phalange factā, etc.,
Caes. B. G. 1, 24; 1, 52:phalangem perfringere,
id. ib. 1, 25. -
2 phalanx
I.In gen.A.Lit., a band of soldiers, a host drawn up in close order ( poet.):B. II.Agamemnoniae phalanges,
Verg. A. 6, 489:densae,
id. ib. 12, 662:Tuscorum,
id. ib. 12, 551:animosa (said of eight brothers fighting together),
id. ib. 12, 277:junctae umbone phalanges,
Juv. 2, 46.—In partic.A.Among the Athenians and Spartans, a division of an army drawn up in battle array, a battalion, phalanx, Nep. Chabr. 1, 2; id. Pelop. 4, 2.—B.The Macedonian order of battle, a Macedonian phalanx (a compact parallelogram of fifty men abreast and sixteen deep), Nep. Eum. 7, 1; Curt. 3, 2, 13; Liv. 31, 39, 10; cf.:2.quae (cohortes) cuneum Macedonum (phalangem ipsi vocant) perrumperent,
id. 32, 17, 11:fecerat et falangem triginta milium hominum,
Lampr. Alex. Sev. 50, 5.—An order of battle of the Gauls and Germans, forming a parallelogram:Helvetii confertissimā acie, phalange factā, etc.,
Caes. B. G. 1, 24; 1, 52:phalangem perfringere,
id. ib. 1, 25.
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