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Arrian\'s \"Ektaxis kat\' Alanon\" transl issue
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Tarn once described taxis as the handmaiden of all work in the Anabasis. Perhaps we should add kuophos to that as well??

I agree: more mobile/agile is by far the best fit - and related to fittness and/or abilities. It hardly seems sensible to have the most lightly armed of the archers!(Were they to leave their bows, arrows or quiver behind??)3

Usain Bolt might be the definition of kouphos...
Paralus|Michael Park

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Re: Arrian\'s \"Ektaxis kat\' Alanon\" transl issue - by Paralus - 08-17-2012, 05:04 AM

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