Alexander : a history of the origin and growth of the art of war from earliest times to the battle of Ipsus, : with a detailed account of the campaigns of the great Macedonian . alds. Rewards and punishments were practically the same as withother states. Those who avoided military duty by false pre-texts were dressed in womens clothes, and exliibited in pub-lic ; cowards were excluded from religious ceremonials andconventions of the people. Culprits were forbidden to marry;even their families joined in disgracing them; and they weresubjected to cuffs and insults in public, which they mig
Alexander : a history of the origin and growth of the art of war from earliest times to the battle of Ipsus, : with a detailed account of the campaigns of the great Macedonian . alds. Rewards and punishments were practically the same as withother states. Those who avoided military duty by false pre-texts were dressed in womens clothes, and exliibited in pub-lic ; cowards were excluded from religious ceremonials andconventions of the people. Culprits were forbidden to marry;even their families joined in disgracing them; and they weresubjected to cuffs and insults in public, which they might notresent. The Athenians, owing to their greater luxuries, were thefirst in Greece whose army fell into slackness and weak dis-cipline. The Athenian army consisted T)f ten chiliarchias (orregiments), one for every tribe, of one thousand or more meneach, commanded by a ehiliarch or colonel, and under himcaptains and file leaders. had a servant or arms- bearer, who retired to , Of cavalry there was, previous to the P >rce of but ninety- 82 ATHENIAN CAVALRY. six men, which number later grew to one thousand or twelvehundred, about one tenth the foot, and was divided into two. Hoplite. hipparchias (regiments) under two hipparchs and ten phy-larchs. The richest and best fitted citizens served in thecavalry. Rigid examinations of physical strength and finan-cial ability to support the cost of cavalry service were re-quired. But this arm nonethe less remained very medio-cre. The Athenians were sea-men, not horsemen. To the Athenians belongsthe credit of first making warsomething more than a merephysical science. The keenwit of Athens elevated allwhich it touched, and amongthe other arts war gained some-thing of value from her brain tissue. This gain took t ^ *orm of marked improvements , . - , J^he propt. 1 .11 P m tactics and m foi;^ . ne^es; and still more oi _ , . 1,. ones who were . , a broader intelligeEf , , , ,oi war, and an appre- . ~ . nf^^^ ^^^ th^ naturalciation of its
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