And do you think, Cyrus, said one of the generals, that drawn up with lines so shallow we shall be a match for so deep a phalanx?
When phalanxes are too deep to reach the enemy with weapons, answered Cyrus, how do you think they can either hurt their enemy or help their friends?
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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