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68.
Such were the order and the forces of the two
combatants.
The Lacedaemonian army looked the largest;
[2]
though as to putting down the numbers of either host, or of the contingents
composing it, I could not do so with any accuracy.
Owing to the secrecy of their government the number of the Lacedaemonians
was not known, and men are so apt to brag about the forces of their country
that the estimate of their opponents was not trusted.
The following calculation, however, makes it possible to estimate the
numbers of the Lacedaemonians present upon this occasion.
[3]
There were seven companies in the field without counting the Sciritae, who
numbered six hundred men: in each company there were four Pentecostyes, and
in the Pentecosty four Enomoties.
The first rank of the Enomoty was composed of four soldiers: as to the
depth, although they had not been all drawn up alike, but as each captain
chose, they were generally ranged eight deep; the first rank along the whole line, exclusive of the Sciritae, consisted
of four hundred and forty-eight men.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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