2/2 rear rank and the epistates becomes the promachos after you take off running on a prearranged signal? Xenophon describes the countermarch, so we know that’s already a thing.
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Mostly because the Roman system for doing the same was kind of complex and purpose-built. Not only having the velites, but having a formation built with lanes for them to retreat through, and a command system with smaller tactical units.
Of course I want to be cautious here - we're getting out beyond our sources to say much of anything at all. If you'll permit the jurassic park reference, we're mostly debating frog DNA here. But that's my read: this stuff is hard, the Romans needed a formation designed for it..
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...Xen. doesn't have that - or honestly anything really approaching it in terms of tactical or command sophistication. So I think probably it was an undrilled ad hoc solution that worked OK in the event, but wasn't really meaningfully institutionalized, even at the time.
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That’s more of a leap than I’m comfortable with. There’s a strong practical argument for it, and the sources don’t clearly support either interpretation.
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