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1 These were the infantry of the guard, the hypaspistae, called by the name which came into use only in the period of the Successors (Tarn, Alexander the Great, 2, p. 116. Curtius 8.5.4 writes of the introduction of silver and gold trappings in 327.
2 The battalions of the Macedonian phalanx were organized on a territorial basis and known by the names of their component elements.
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