Both Uses
phalanx
in
Queen of Attolia
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- As the Mede soldiers reached the first of the Eddisians, the Eddisians threw themselves onto their knees, leaving their backs unprotected as they cut the legs out from under the men at the front edge of the phalanx.†
Chpt 16
- Before her, she could see the armies drawn up as she had expected, the Attolians spread thinly in an indefensible battle line, the Medes forming their phalanxes behind them.†
Chpt 18 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(phalanx as in: a phalanx of riot police) a group standing and moving together -- especially an ancient Greek military formation
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(2)
(phalanx in medicine) medicine: any of the bones of the fingers or toes
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)