spartan army at Mantinea 418 BC

[Paralus]

As mentioned Xenophon discribes the army in 6 morai of 4 lochoi of 144 men each. So 6 morai should be correct. Only the strenght of the moria depended on the mission

The Peloponesians had no horsebreeding culture ...

See my short note above with respect to Xenophn's number of lochoi. The minor emendation of the transmitted text to read two makes eminent common sense and fits with what else we know of the army of Mantinea and onwards. With homoioi an ever diminishing species it makes little sense to expand the number of lochoi.

The Spartans most certainly had a horsebreeding culture: the record at Olympia speaks to it. The king's guard, the hippies also harks back to horse breeding. That they made little use of cavalry is another thing though.