Wheeling the phalanx

[hoplite14gr]

Aslepiodotos and Polyainos are right.
Philon Byzantios reswues the term Syskoinia (8-10 men)
Philip was accustomed with the Syskoinia (8-10 men) Lochos (100 men) and Taxis (200 - 500 men).
The phalanx was devided in sub-units at least until the early hellenistc period.
It is only the case that later Seleukidic and Ptolemaic armies did not have proprly drilled pike men and used massed uwieldly blocks of ill trained men.
A practice that was continued by Bythinians and Mithradates.

Robert I have read Mavrikios on the Greek text but the comand is also referenced by Polyenos.
Please see the thread "Commands in Greek"
Kind regards