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66.
The next day the Argives and their allies
formed in the order in which they meant to fight, if they chanced to
encounter the enemy; and the Lacedaemonians returning from the water to their old encampment by
the temple of Heracles, suddenly saw their adversaries close in front of
them, all in complete order, and advanced from the hill.
[2]
A shock like that of the present moment the Lacedaemonians do not ever
remember to have experienced: there was scant time for preparation, as they
instantly and hastily fell into their ranks, Agis, their king, directing
everything, agreeably to the law.
[3]
For when a king is in the field all commands proceed from him: he gives the
word to the Polemarchs; they to the Lochages; these to the Pentecostyes; these again to the Enomotarchs, and these last to the Enomoties.
[4]
In short all orders required pass in the same way and quickly reach the
troops; as almost the whole Lacedaemonian army, save for a small part, consists of
officers under officers, and the care of what is to be done falls upon many.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- Harper's, Lochus
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), EXE´RCITUS
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), POLEMARCHUS
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter IV
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- Thomas R. Martin, An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander, The Peloponnesian War and Athenian Life
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- LSJ, ἐνωμοτ-άρχης
- LSJ, ἐπιμελ-ής
- LSJ, εἰς
- LSJ, λοχ-α_γός
- LSJ, μέλλ-ησις
- LSJ, μιμνήσκω
- LSJ, παράγγ-ελσις
- LSJ, πεντηκοντ-ήρ
- LSJ, πολέμαρχ-ος
- LSJ, τα^χύς
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