If, on the other hand, an enemy force appears on the right when they are
						marching in column, all that they have to do is to order each company to
						wheel to the right so as to front the enemy like a man-of-war, and thus
						again the company at the rear of the column is on the right. If again an
						enemy approaches on the left, they do not allow that either, but either push
						him back This can only mean that if the
							Lacedaemonians are in battle-order the whole phalanx turns to the left
							to meet the attack: wheeling by companies to the left would only be
							necessary when the army marching in column was threatened on the left.
							But ἀλλὰ προθέουσιν found in C
							( but either run forward ) is almost certainly the right reading. 
						or wheel their companies to the left to face him, and thus the rear of the
						column finds itself on the left. I will now explain the method of encampment
						approved by Lycurgus. Seeing that the angles of a square are
						useless, he introduced the circular form of camp, except where there was a
						secure hill or wall, or a river afforded protection in the rear.