[7] Al. "are quite capable of trampling down the troops behind in
their retreat." {tous opla ekhontas} = "the troops proper," "heavy
infantry."

"How different is an army well organised in battle order: a splendid
sight for friendly eyes to gaze at, albeit an eyesore to the enemy.
For who, being of their party, but will feel a thrill of satisfaction
as he watches the serried masses of heavy infantry moving onwards in
unbroken order? who but will gaze with wonderment as the squadrons of
the cavalry dash past him at the gallop? And what of the foeman? will
not his heart sink within him to see the orderly arrangements of the
different arms:[8] here heavy infantry and cavalry, and there again
light infantry, there archers and there slingers, following each their
leaders, with orderly precision. As they tramp onwards thus in order,
though they number many myriads, yet even so they move on and on in
quiet progress, stepping like one man, and the place just vacated in
front is filled up on the instant from the rear.

[8] "Different styles of troops drawn up in separate divisions:
hoplites, cavalry, and peltasts, archers, and slingers."

"Or picture a trireme, crammed choke-full of mariners; for what reason
is she so terror-striking an object to her enemies, and a sight so
gladsome to the eyes of friends? is it not that the gallant ship sails
so swiftly? And why is it that, for all their crowding, the ship's
company[9] cause each other no distress? Simply that there, as you may
see them, they sit in order; in order bend to the oar; in order
recover the stroke; in order step on board; in order disembark. But
disorder is, it seems to me, precisely as though a man who is a