There were previous examples of people trying to have a deep wing that would do things, but if you take me back to my primitive phalanx here about 600-650 they're not doing that stuff yet.

先前有例子,人们会在布阵时增加两翼的排数,如果再回到我这里的原始方阵,公元前六百到六百五十年的方阵,不会采取这种方式

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I say that a typical phalanx is eight; however, by the time you get down to the fourth century and people are doing all kinds of new and innovative things, we hear that the left wing of the Boeotian army at Leuktra was fifty men deep.

常见的方阵有八行,然而四世纪时,人们进行了一系列的革新,听说在洛伊克特拉城皮奥夏人的军队,左翼纵深五十排

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