05-30-2010, 02:58 PM
Quote:Note to Paralus: I don't think we need take the notion that he physically fought them all the way back up the hill a step at a time and then beat them out of their fortress too seriously. Phylarchus's (presumably) account has them break in front of the fortress, in fact just when they seem to have won. Also, they would have had to break their phalanx just to get back inside of the pallisade, for they did not knock the whole thing down.
Because it makes for a better tale! And, no, I don't think they broke into their entrenchments just fell to bits as they backed up to them - if they did. From what we here elsewhere the time will have come for the fracturing as men panic - whether that was was with rear ranks backed against an entrenchment or just going backwards after a difficult fight.
Quote:You have ignored that this is the SECOND use of epallelos in the description...
Indeed, that was my advice: ‘double’ is not quite literal, but its meaning follows from the “epallêlon” at 66.9.
Paralus|Michael Park
Ἐπὶ τοὺς πατέρας, ὦ κακαὶ κεφαλαί, τοὺς μετὰ Φιλίππου καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρου τὰ ὅλα κατειργασμένους
Wicked men, you are sinning against your fathers, who conquered the whole world under Philip and Alexander!
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Ἐπὶ τοὺς πατέρας, ὦ κακαὶ κεφαλαί, τοὺς μετὰ Φιλίππου καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρου τὰ ὅλα κατειργασμένους
Wicked men, you are sinning against your fathers, who conquered the whole world under Philip and Alexander!
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