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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Cavalry General by Xenophon: notice.[11] Accordingly, in addition to[12] this method of ordering
the march by word passed along the line, the appointment of file-
leaders seems desirable, who again are to be supplemented by section-
leaders,[13] so that the number of men to whom each petty officer has
to transmit an order will be very few;[14] while the section-leaders
will deploy and increase the front, whatever the formation, without
confusion, whenever there is occasion for the movement.[15]
[11] i.e. "given by general word of command, or in writing." As to the
"word-of-mouth command," see above, S. 3; "Hell." VII. v. 9; and
for the "herald," see "Anab." III. iv. 36.
[12] Reading {pros to dia p.}, or if {pros to} . . . transl. "with a
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