Roman pikeman and spearman

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Yet, he seems to me he makes a mistake since he has the third rank "paiein or akontizein" instead of the the first as my texts state.
He says that Mommsen has proposed changing "first" to "third" and not that it originally read "third". He again disagrees with this idea.

I do not have Bosworth's article now, but as far as I remember he argued that it was Mommsen who proposed change from "third" to "first" - could you give a quote? In my copy of Arrian "first" is attributed to Mommsen and "third" to manuscript "F". As for the rest of Bosworth's arguments, they are rather doubtful, especially the part concerning the verb "ἀκοντίζω". Didn't he revisit this verb in his article Arrian and Rome (1993)?

Here is the page in question. Both the "mistake" I talked about and the Momssen addition are discussed here.
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