But what the Greeks spent most of their time doing was fighting each other, one hoplite phalanx against another hoplite phalanx.

但是希腊人在大部分时间里都是方阵对抗,一个步兵方阵和另外一个步兵方阵对垒

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The kind of battle I've been describing to you, a nice flat field, two armies coming at each other, there's not much you can do in the way of trickery, and so you can take a high tone and say, anybody who fights any other way is a no good coward.

我向你们描述的这种战争,土地平坦开阔,两军对垒,没有多大机会使用奸计,所以你能大声地说,谁在战争中使奸就是胆小的懦夫

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