phalanx.

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After clearing the ground where the shattered wall lay in heaps he brought up a movable tower of immense height carrying a large number of men on its numerous stages, and sent on cohort after cohort to break through, if possible, the massed body of Macedonians, which they call the phalanx.

The History of Rome, Vol. IV 1905
I think that might be because of the phallic nature of the word phalanx.

COMIXTALK 2009
There were 16,000 infantry in the Macedonian fashion. known as the "phalanx."

The History of Rome, Vol. V 1905