phalanx angis, f
, φάλαγξ, a compact
body of heavy armed men in battle array, battalion, phalanx: Laconum, N.: Helvetii phalange factā,
etc., Cs.: Agamemnoniae phalanges, V.: animosa (a band of eight brothers), V.: iunctae umbone
phalanges, Iu.—Esp., of the Macedonians, men in order of battle,
a phalanx (fifty close files of sixteen men each): cuneum Macedonum (phalangem ipsi
vocant) perrumpere, L., N., Cu.