But I think that depth would have been determined by how many soldiers you had available.

我想纵深将取决于,你有多少士兵

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Another possible explanation of the significance of depth is remember, our poor victim here.

方阵纵深的重要性的另一种可能解释,就是,记得刚才这位可怜的牺牲者吗

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Let's imagine my army is the same size as theirs precisely, so that the line is the same size on both sides; therefore, also the same depth.

想象我们的军队和敌人有同样的规模,双方的每一排都具有同样的规模,当然,纵深也相同

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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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