Citations:syntagmatarchy


 * 1670–1, Sir James Turner, Pallas Armata: Military Eſſayes of the Ancient Grecian, Roman, and Modern Art of War, Greenwood Press (1968 reprint), chapter v, page 13:
 * A Sergeant in an old French or German Company repreſents this Grecian Taxiarch. Two Taxiarchies, which were ſixteen Files, made a Syntagmatarchy of two hundred fifty ſix men; its Commander Syntagmatarcha was our private Captain. This Company was a ſquare of men, ſixteen in Rank and ſixteen in File, and whatever way you turn’d it, ſtill ſixteen. And if with Ælian, you allow ſix foot of diſtance between Files as well as Ranks, it will be a Body equilateral, and a ſquare of ground, as well as a ſquare of men. But of theſe manner of Battels I ſhall ſpeak particularly hereafter. // Two Syntagmatarchies compos’d a Pentecoſiarchy conſiſting of five hundred and twelve men; its Commander was called Pentecoſiarcha, or, in Latine, Tribunus minor, we call him out Lieutenant Colonel. Two Pentecoſiarchies made a Chiliarchy of one thouſand twenty four men, its Commander was Chiliarcha, or Tribunus major, to whom anſwers directly our Modern Colonel of one thouſand men. Of two Chiliarchies was made up a Myriarchy or two thouſand forty eight, its Commander was Myriarcha. About eighty years ago no Colonel in Germany had ſo few in his Regiment, but now we ſhall ſay that he was as our Brigadeer; Two Myriarchies made a Phalangarchy or ſimple Phalange, conſiſting of four thouſand ninety ſix men; its Commander was called Phalangiarcha, in Latine, Prætor; for whom ſuppoſe a modern Major General. Two Phalangarchies made a Diphalangarchy, compos’d of eight thouſand one hundred ninety two men; its Commander was called a Diphalangiarcha, for whom we have none but a Lieutenant General. Two of theſe made a Phalange, over which commanded the General of the Infantry. By this account we find in every Phalange two Diphalangarchies, four Phalangarchies, eight Myriarchies, ſixteen Chiliarchies, two and thirty Pentecoſiarchies, ſixty four Syntagmatarchies; in all one thouſand twenty four Files, which conſiſted of ſixteen thouſand three hundred eighty four men, at ſixteen in every File. // Here you are to obſerve, that every Syntagmatarchy or private Company, conſiſting of two hundred fifty ſix men, had beſide the Captain and others already ſpoken of, five other Officers, whom Ælian calls ſupernumerary or extraordinary.
 * 1787, anonymous, Sketch of a Plan for Reducing the Expence of the Army, by an Alteration in the Eſtabliſhment, : printed for T. & J. Egerton at the Military Library near, pages 5–6:
 * The loweſt officer in the Grecian phalanx was the Decurio. He led the file conſiſting of ſixteen men, and may be compared to our corporal. Sixteen of theſe files compoſed what was called a ſyntagmatarchy or a ſquare body of 256 men. This body had its dux, or captain, and its tergidux, or lieutenant; beſides the following officers called extraordinary, an enſign bearer, to carry the colours; an aſſiſtant or adjutant, apræco or crier to proclaim the orders, and a trumpeter. So that the ordinary officers, whom the Greek Tacticians appointed over 256 men, were what anſwer to our captain and lieutenant, with ſixteen corporals or non-commiſſion officers. The ſame proportion was obſerved throughout the phalanx.
 * 1814, Henry Augustus Visc. Dillon xiii, The Tactics of Ælian, Comprising the Military System of the Grecians; Illustrated with Notes, Explanatory Plates, &c. &c. &c., chapted xx: “On the relative Position of Cavalry in the Field; the number of Men in a Troop; and the Names of the divisional Parts of the Horse attached to a Phalanx”, page 94, endnote 2:
 * In the phalanx, (as we have seen in the 9th Chapter,) were 64 syntagmatarchies; and it evidently appears that the number of cavalry (as the 8th Chapter informs us) assigned to act with the phalanx, was 4096 men; now this number being divided by 64, will exactly furnish a troop consisting of a like number to each syntagmatarchy.
 * 1989, The Ancient World XIX–XX, pages 47–48, § 9.10:
 * Two diphalangarchies are a tetraphalangarchy, 1,024 files, 16,384 men, so that in the phalanx as a whole there will be 2 wings, 4 phalangarchies, 8 merarchies, 16 chiliarchies, 32 pentakosiarchies, 64 syntagmatarchies, 128 taxiarchies, 256 tetrarchies, 512 dilochiai, 1,024 files (lochoi).