Xenophon Anabasis 3.4.21

Carleton L. Brownson (Translator)

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Anabasis. Xenophon. Carleton L. Brownson (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1921-1922.

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Current edition Perseus

Anabasis (English) (Xenophon in Seven Volumes, Vol. 2-3. Brownson, Carleton L, editor, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1921-1922.)

Editions (1)
Ἀνάβασις Perseus (Xenophon. Opera omnia, Vol. 3. Marchant, Edgar Cardew, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1904.) — 3.4.21 focus

Notes on the current edition

Anabasis

1. i.e. commanders of fifties and twenty-fives, or of half and quarter companies.
2. The formation is a hollow square. Xenophon means by wings ( κέρατα, here and above) the right and left ends of the division which formed the front of the square, and by flanks ( πλευραί) the divisions which formed the sides of the square. Apparently three of the special companies were stationed at the middle of the front side of the square (cp. 43 below) and the other three in the corresponding position at the rear.