The Immortals

[Vishtaspa]

"stifos" is very interesting.
In some passages refers to a marching army, a column (I suspect, array in order) for example, in greco-persian contexts:

Aeschilus, Persians 19-20: "pezoi te baden/polemou stiphos parekhontes" "infantrymen marching, forming battle column"

Herodotus. IX, 57: "analabonta ton lokhon ta hopla ege baden to allo stiphos"
"taking the lokhos the arms, he (Pausanias) led (the lokhos) marching to the whole (greek) army"

In the battle, again referred to persians:

Herodotus IX, 70. "hoi de barbaroi ouden eti stiphos epoienanto" "but the barbarians did'nt make a column (i.e. a battle order, they were disbanded) "


Sorry for the rude greek transcription, I put it in latin letters in order to help people who can't read greek, so they can recognize the words. Sorry too for the English translations, I can understand the greek text, but my english is no so good.

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