φάλαγγες (phalanges)

φάλαγγες is an Ancient Greek form of φάλαγξ, meaning “battle-line, phalanx”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun.

Found 40 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.388: αἱ δʼ ἄρʼ ὑπὸ τρόπιδι στιβαρῇ στενάχοντο φάλαγγες

Appianus of Alexandria, Hannibalic War 4.21: … οῖσδε τοῖς ἀνδράσι κατορθωμάτων, καὶ ὡς αἰσχρὸν ἡττᾶσθαι τῶν ἡττημένων. ἐπεὶ δʼ αἵ τε σάλπιγγες ἤχησαν καὶ αἱ φαλάγγες ἐβόησαν, πρῶτον μὲν αὐτῶν οἱ τοξόται καὶ σφενδονῆται καὶ λιθοβόλοι προδραμόντες ἐς τὸ μέσον ἀλλήλων κατῆρχον, …

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.