phălanx | fălanx (noun F) : (post-class. ), , , = φάλαγξ.
* In gen.
* Lit., a band of soldiers, a host drawn up in close order (poet.): Agamemnoniae phalanges,Verg. A. 6, 489: densae,id. ib. 12, 662: Tuscorum,id. ib. 12, 551: animosa (said of eight brothers fighting together),id. ib. 12, 277: junctae umbone phalanges,Juv. 2, 46.
* In partic.
* Among the Athenians and Spartans, a division of an army drawn up in battle array, a battalion, phalanx, Nep. Chabr. 1, 2; id. Pelop. 4, 2.
* The Macedonian order of battle, a Macedonian phalanx (a compact parallelogram of fifty men abreast and sixteen deep), Nep. Eum. 7, 1; Curt. 3, 2, 13; Liv. 31, 39, 10; cf.: quae (cohortes) cuneum Macedonum (phalangem ipsi vocant) perrumperent,id. 32, 17, 11: fecerat et falangem triginta milium hominum,Lampr. Alex. Sev. 50, 5.
* An order of battle of the Gauls and Germans, forming a parallelogram: Helvetii confertissimā acie, phalange factā, etc.,Caes. B. G. 1, 24; 1, 52: phalangem perfringere,id. ib. 1, 25.

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