spartan army at Mantinea 418 BC

[Paullus Scipio]

...just a hypothesis, but my bet would be a couple or a few enomotia, just to secure the right flank and 'keep it tight', so as to prevent the famous rightward drift by the obviously less well-drilled and disciplined Tegean hoplites.....As it is, the 'rightward drift' by the enemy leaves the Skiritai on the left, out- flanked ( so one can imagine that this would have been severe if the Spartan Army had drifted to it's right as well !), which Agis tries to remedy by ordering two lochoi from the Lakedaemonian right ( presumably one lochoi from each of two mora, since moving two mora would have meant a 'hole' a third the size of the Lakedaemonian front in the ranks! hock: )

The two commanders concerned, Hipponoidas and Aristokles refused to obey the King's order, and inevitably the Skiritae, Brasideioi and Neodamodeis were out-flanked and beaten back, the Coalition troops pursuing to the wagons where some of the Spartan elder men were killed....
(Thuc.5.72 )