Ἐπιστροφή
turn-manoeuvre; quarter-turn
Translated by William Hutton7 Dec 2007Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[sc. This is the name for what happens] when, after concentrating the whole battalion toward the side-man and the back-man, we turn, just like the body of a single man, toward spear-side or shield-side, with the whole contingent wheeling around the company-commander1 as a center-point, and we change the forward position and the flank on the right side,2 but each man keeps the same side-men and back-men.3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἐπιστροφή· ἐπειδὰν τὸ πᾶν σύνταγμα πυκνώσαντες κατὰ παραστάτην καὶ ἐπιστάτην καθάπερ ἀνδρὸς ἑνὸς σῶμα ἐπὶ δόρυ ἢ ἐπ' ἀσπίδα ἐγκλίνωμεν, καθάπερ ἐπὶ κέντρῳ τῷ λοχαγῷ παντὸς τοῦ τάγματος περιενεχθέντος, καὶ μεταλαβόντες τόπον μὲν τὸν ἔμπροσθεν, ἐπιφάνειαν δὲ τὴν ἐκ δεξιῶν, διαμενόντων ἑκάστῳ τῶν τε παραστατῶν καὶ ἐπιστατῶν.