[6] See Plut. "Lycurg." 22 (Clough, i. 114).

So furnished and accoutred, he divided his citizen soldiers into six
morai[7] (or regimental divisions) of cavalry[8] and heavy infantry.
Each of these citizen regiments (political divisions) has one
polemarch[9] (or colonel), four lochagoi (or captains of companies),
eight penteconters (or lieutenants, each in command of half a
company), and sixteen enomotarchs (or commanders of sections). At the
word of command any such regimental division can be formed readily
either into enomoties (i.e. single file) or into threes (i.e. three
files abreast), or into sixes (i.e. six files abreast).[10]

[7] The {mora}. Jowett, "Thuc." ii. 320, note to Thuc. v. 68, 3.

[8] See Plut. "Lycurg." 23 (Clough, i. 115); "Hell." VI. iv. 11; Thuc.
v. 67; Paus. IV. viii. 12.

[9] See Thuc. v. 66, 71.

[10] See Thuch. v. 68, and Arnold's note ad loc.; "Hell." VI. iv. 12;
"Anab." II. iv. 26; Rustow and Kochly, op. cit. p. 117.

As to the idea, commonly entertained, that the tactical arrangement of
the Laconian heavy infantry is highly complicated, no conception could
be more opposed to fact. For in the Laconian order the front rank men
are all leaders,[11] so that each file has everything necessary to
play its part efficiently. In fact, this disposition is so easy to
understand that no one who can distinguish one human being from
another could fail to follow it. One set have the privilege of
leaders, the other the duty of followers. The evolutional orders,[12]