Anon they move

In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood

Of flutes and soft recorders.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 549.

You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet,

Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone?

Of two such lessons, why forget

The nobler and the manlier one?

You have the letters Cadmus gave,—

Think ye he meant them for a slave?

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Don Juan. Canto iii. Stanza 86. 10.