Same entry, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon.
The Paeonian Agrianes inhabited the headwaters of the R. Strymon, in present-day Bulgaria (Herodotus, Strabo, et al.; Barrington Atlas map 49 grid E1). The present gloss, however, highlights their military role: they were a small but nevertheless important light-infantry unit in the armies of Alexander and his successors; present at, for instance, the battles of Raphia and Kynoskephaphai. See Arrian, Anabasis 1.5 and passim; also Diodorus, Quintus Curtius Rufus, Polybius and Livy. Although originally from the Agriania, the term may have denoted a troop-type in the armies of Antiochos III and Philip V.
'Taxis' was used to denote various sizes of unit. In Alexander's army the Agrianes were probably 500 strong; s Diodorus 17.17. Taxis was normally used of units from 1600 to 2000 strong; see Aelian and the military writers.