I say that a typical phalanx is eight; however, by the time you get down to the fourth century and people are doing all kinds of new and innovative things, we hear that the left wing of the Boeotian army at Leuktra was fifty men deep.

常见的方阵有八行,然而四世纪时,人们进行了一系列的革新,听说在洛伊克特拉城皮奥夏人的军队,左翼纵深五十排

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