- 600-man
taxeis, each 50 men wide and 32 men deep.
Twenty war
elephants were
separated into
pairs and deplo**** in the gaps
between the
taxeis, further...
- One itself, but they
stand at the head of
chains of
causation (seirai or
taxeis) and in some
manner give to
these chains their particular character. They...
- hundred, led by a
strategos (general). The
entire army, a
total of
several taxeis or moræ was led by a generals' council. The commander-in-chief was usually...
-
variable number of
taxeis formed a
phalanx under a phalangiarch. On his
Asian campaign, Alexander, had a
phalanx of 6
veteran taxeis,
numbering 9,000 men...
- took
their lives either by sword, fire, or a
poison extracted ex
arboribus taxeis, that is, from the yew tree (2: 33, 50–51). In a
similar way,
Orosius notes...
- the ********ination of Coenus' father-in-law, Parmenion.
Coenus commanded a
taxeis (unit of 1500 Phalangites) of Alexander's army, and
distinguished himself...
- phalanx. Alexander's army
consisted of 24,000
infantrymen divided into 12
taxeis of
phalangites of
about 1,500 men and
three quiliarchies of 1000 hypaspists...
- somatophylaces. He was
killed at the
siege of Halicarn****us, 334 BC,
commanding two
taxeis of Hypaspists,
those of
Adaeus and Timander. W
Heckel believes that this...
-
Gaugamela in 331 BC,
where he was
positioned in the
center between the
taxeis of
Meleager and Amyntas. In 331/330,
Polyperchon parti****ted in the crossing...
-
essential part of them were men from Lyncestis.
Regional infantry regiments (
taxeis)
served in Alexander's army were
composed of men from
various Upper Macedonian...
