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Headword: *mh=kos fa/laggos
Adler number: mu,910
Translated headword: phalanx' length
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
The first corps [formed] out of the lochagoi,[1] which is arranged in a single straight line extending from wing to wing. This is also called a prosopon ["face"] and a metopon ["forehead"] and a stoma ["mouth"] and a parataxis ["marshalling"] and a protolochia ["file-head"] and [the] protostatai ["front-line men"]. The line behind this, positioned in parallel, is called the second rank, and the third the third rank; and so on likewise.
Greek Original:
*mh=kos fa/laggos: to\ prw=ton e)k tw=n loxagw=n su/ntagma, o(\ u(po\ mi/an eu)qei=an ta/ssetai, a)po\ ke/ratos ei)s ke/ras diatei=non. kalei=tai de\ tou=to kai\ pro/swpon kai\ me/twpon kai\ sto/ma kai\ para/tacis kai\ prwtoloxi/a kai\ prwtosta/tai. o( de\ kato/pin tou/tou sti/xos para/llhlos kei/menos deu/teron zugo\n kalei=tai, kai\ o( tri/tos tri/ton zugo/n: kai\ e(ch=s o(moi/ws.
Notes:
cf. Asclepiodotus 2.5.
[1] See lambda 706.
Keywords: definition; imagery; military affairs; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 6 July 2009@06:39:10.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (supplemented translation, added keyword, set status) on 6 July 2009@14:10:49.
David Whitehead (tweaked tr) on 7 July 2009@03:04:57.
David Whitehead on 21 May 2013@06:34:44.
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