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The Tactics of Aelian

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by Christopher Matthew


  Plate 7 (Chapter 18): Cavalry arranged in a rhombus by ranks and files.

  Plate 8 (Chapter 19): A wedge of cavalry.

  Plate 9 (Chapter 18): Variations of the cavalry square.

  Plate 10 (Chapter 19): Cavalry arranged in a rhombus with files but no ranks.

  Plate 11 (Chapter 24): Changing the soldiers facing.

  Plate 12 (Chapter 27): The Macedonian Counter-march.

  Plate 13 (Chapter 27): The Lacedaemonian Counter-march.

  Plate 14 (Chapter 27): The Choral/Cretan/Persian Counter-march.

  Plate 15 (Chapter 28): Doubling the number of files.

  Plate 16 (Chapter 30): Entaxis.

  Plate 17 (Chapter 30): Hypotaxis.

  Plate 18 (Chapter 31): Wheeling to the left.

  Plate 19 (Chapter 35): The koelembolus formation.

  Plate 20 (Chapter 36): One syntagma ‘deducted’ to the right.

  Plate 21 (Chapter 37): One syntagma arranged as an antistomos formation

  Plate 22 (Chapter 38): One syntagma arranged as an amphistomos formation.

  Plate 23 (Chapter 39): The antistomos diphalangarchia formation.

  Plate 24 (Chapter 40): Two syntagmae arranged in a peristomos diphalangarchia formation.

  Plate 25 (Chapter 41): Two tetrarchia marching in a homoiostomos formation.

  Plate 26 (Chapter 42): Two syntagmae marching in a heterostomos formation.

  Plate 27 (Chapter 43): The cavalry rhombus and the half-moon infantry formation.

  Plate 28 (Chapter 45): The cavalry rhombus and the epicampios emprosthia infantry formation.

  Plate 29 (Chapter 46): The kyrtē infantry formation.

  Plate 30 (Chapter 47): The square cavalry formation and the infantry wedge.

  Plate 31 (Chapter 48): The plaision infantry formation.

  Plate 32 (Chapter 48): The peplegmenē or ‘saw tooth infantry formation.

 

 

 


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