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 . 64 RELATIVE STRENGTH OF HEAVY AND LIGHT FOOT. tated by the other Greek cities. Scarlet or crimson were thefavorite colors of the warrior. The Greek cavalry was either heavy, — cataphracti, bear-ing long double-ended lances, sword and axe, small shield, and fully armored, aswas also the horse; orlight, — acrobolisti, far-shooters, — who weremerely light-armed rid-ers and like nomads intheir methods. The forceof ca
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 . 64 RELATIVE STRENGTH OF HEAVY AND LIGHT FOOT. tated by the other Greek cities. Scarlet or crimson were thefavorite colors of the warrior. The Greek cavalry was either heavy, — cataphracti, bear-ing long double-ended lances, sword and axe, small shield, and fully armored, aswas also the horse; orlight, — acrobolisti, far-shooters, — who weremerely light-armed rid-ers and like nomads intheir methods. The forceof cavalry had beensomewhat increased bythe time of the Persianinvasion to about onetenth the foot. Age-silaus, in Asia Minor,. Cataphractos. made it for a time one fourth the foot. But the Greekcavalry was essentially poor, though certain leaders, likeEpaminondas, managed to get good work out of it. TheGreeks were not a nation of horsemen. The relative numbers of heavy and light foot and cavalrywere very various. At Marathon (Herodotus) were ten thou-sand hoplites, a few psiloi, no cavalry. At Plataea servedthirty-eight thousand seven hundred heavy, seventy-one thou-sand three hundred light foot, and no cavalry. At theopening of the Peloponnesian war Athens had (Thucydides)thirteen thousand heavy, sixteen hundred light foot, andtwelve hundred horse, not counting sixteen thousand hoplitesto defend the city. Epaminondas had at Leuctra (Diodorus)six thousand heavy foot, fifteen hundred light foot, five hun-dred horse ; at Mantinaea thirty thousand heavy and light,and three thousand horse. DEPTH OF PHALANX. 65 The phalanx had proven so good a formation during thePersian wars that the Greeks sought to improve rath
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