02-14-2010, 12:23 PM
I mostly agree... You are right in that the taxeis of Amyntas and Perdiccas made the assault, but it was still an attack against a fortified position (charax), which they breached. So, it was not a formed body of men fighting but an irregular (yet in dense bodies of men)engagement. Apart from that, the attack was made without Alexander's signal, so I guess this would make him more angry than the flight, which he must have anticipated as is evident by the way he arrayed his hypaspsits and phalnax (ordered before the flight of his men within the charax) to drive the pursuing Thebans away (and thus win the siege). Yet, it remains the best guess as to which engagement Polyaenus alludes to, should he not be writing about an unknown one (or just relating some rumor).
