Both headword and gloss are in the accusative plural, the headword presumably (though not demonstrably) extracted from the quotation given.
The headword is a military term, attested in the masculine form only here and in ps.-
Zonaras s.v. (which is evidently taken from here). It occurs in neuter form in various military texts broadly contemporary with the Suda: 'Heron of
Byzantium↗' (a.k.a. the
Parangelmata Poliorcetica),
De stratagematibus; Nicephorus Uranus,
Tactica, Nicephorus II Phocas, ps.-Codinus. This difference in form probably indicates that the compiler is using another, more ancient, source (which, according to Adler, could be
Aelian's treatise on tactics; see Prolegomena p.XVIII in Adler's vol.I).
1For the 'battalions' (lochoi) see generally lambda 718 and esp. lambda 719. ↩2Quotation unidentifiable.