Στῖφος
band, troop
Translated by David Whitehead27 Sep 2010Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
A military formation, or a phalanx, concentration, mass of contingents.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Στῖφος· τάξις πολεμική, ἢ φάλαγξ, συστροφή, πλῆθος συστάσεων.
Betacode
*sti=fos: ta/cis polemikh/, h)\ fa/lagc, sustrofh/, plh=qos susta/sewn.
Notes
- As the LSJ entry shows, this headword
sti=fos has both a loose and a precise application. Under the former head (and attested in e.g. Attic tragedy and comedy; also Herodotus and Xenophon) it means an unquantified body of men in close array. (For this in the Suda, see e.g. under eta 506.) But in technical military literature, in and after the Hellenistic period, it designates 4096 light-armed men; see under tau 96.
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- Translated — David Whitehead