- 600-man
taxeis, each 50 men wide and 32 men deep.
Twenty war
elephants were
separated into
pairs and deplo**** in the gaps
between the
taxeis, further...
- somatophylaces. He was
killed at the
siege of Halicarn****us, 334 BC,
commanding two
taxeis of Hypaspists,
those of
Adaeus and Timander. Arrian, Anab. i. 22 Who's Who...
- One itself, but they
stand at the head of
chains of
causation (seirai or
taxeis) and in some
manner give to
these chains their particular character. They...
- hundred, led by a
strategos (general). The
entire army, a
total of
several taxeis or moræ was led by a generals' council. The commander-in-chief was usually...
-
variable number of
taxeis formed a
phalanx under a phalangiarch. On his
Asian campaign, Alexander, had a
phalanx of 6
veteran taxeis,
numbering 9,000 men...
- took
their lives either by sword, fire, or a
poison extracted ex
arboribus taxeis, that is, from the yew tree (2: 33, 50–51). In a
similar way,
Orosius notes...
- levy. Alexander's army
consisted of 24,000
infantrymen divided into 12
taxeis of
phalangites of
about 1,500 men and
three quiliarchies of 1000 hypaspists...
-
could be
grouped together (usually in threes) into
larger bodies called taxeis, syntaxeis,
lochoi or tagmata. The
infantry unit was the taxiarchia, a unit...
-
their military maneuvers. The
Athenian army was
typically divided into ten
taxeis, or
tribal regiments, and
subdivided into lochoi.
These subunits worked...
- the ********ination of Coenus' father-in-law, Parmenion.
Coenus commanded a
taxeis (unit of 1500 Phalangites) of Alexander's army, and
distinguished himself...
