[20] See Rustow and Kochly, p. 127.

[21] For these movements, see "Dict. of Antiq." "Exercitus"; Grote,
"H. G." vii. 111.

[22] See "Hell." VII. v. 23.

[23] I am indebted to Professor Jebb for the following suggestions
with regard to this passage: "The words {oude touto eosin, all
apothousin e}, etc., contain some corruption. The sense ought
clearly to be roughly parallel with that of the phrase used a
little before, {ouden allo pragmateuontai e}, etc. Perhaps
{apothousin} is a corruption of {apothen ousin}, and this
corruption occasioned the insertion of {e}. Probably Xenophon
wrote {oude touto eosin, all apothen ousin antipalous}, etc.:
'while the enemy is still some way off, they turn their companies
so as to face him.' The words {apothen ousin} indirectly suggest
the celerity of the Spartan movement."



XII

I will now speak of the mode of encampment sanctioned by the
regulation of Lycurgus. To avoid the waste incidental to the angles of
a square,[1] the encampment, according to him, should be circular,
except where there was the security of a hill,[2] or fortification, or
where they had a river in their rear. He had sentinels posted during
the day along the place of arms and facing inwards;[3] since they are
appointed not so much for the sake of the enemy as to keep an eye on