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Ranks and units - hoplite14gr - 01-28-2006
LOCHOS = company usually 100 men
LOCHAGOS = Captain
LOCHIAS = responcible for rest and shifts-sargent(NCO)
from LECHOME = lie down to rest
Some times elite companies were unusually strong like the Theban and Achaic companies
that had 300 men.
STICHOS = file
Spartans called it SYSKINIA from SKINI=tent.
SYSKINI= The men who share the same tent, 8 or 10 men,
STICHIARCHOS = file leader leader of 8 or 10 men.
MOIRA = section between 400 to 600 men.
Spartans called it MORA. The term is from Achaic dialect which
testifies to its antiquity.
ENOMOTIA = those who sworn together (to stick together)
3 SYSKINIAE = 24 men aproximately modern platoon.
ENOMOTARCHIS = leader of ENOMOTIA.
TAXIS = 256 to 512 men in the Hellenistic armies
TAXIARCHOS = leader of TAXIS
Stratigos = leader of the army=general- function of the king or elected general.