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φάλαγγα (phalanga)

φάλαγγα is an Ancient Greek form of φάλαγξ, meaning “battle-line, phalanx”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 240 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.848: ἀμφὶ δὲ τήνγε φάλαγγα παλαιγενέος κοτίνοιο

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 4.22: … λως ἐμάχετο, περὶ δέ γε δυσμὰς ἐπιβρίσας μετὰ τῶν εὐψυχοτάτων ἐν τῶ δεξιῷ κέρατι, ὅπου καὶ ὁ Βακχίδης ἦν, τὴν φάλαγγά διασπᾷ καὶ ἐτρέψατο εἰς φυγήν. ἐπελθόντες δ’ οἱ κατὰ τὸ εὐώνυμον ἐκύκλωσαν τὸν Ἰούδαν. ὁ δὲ στὰς ἐμάχετο μετὰ …

All forms of φάλαγξ (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.