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The men who served in the army were the following: the Persians were equipped in this way: they wore on their heads loose caps called tiaras, and on their bodies embroidered sleeved tunics, with scales of iron like the scales of fish in appearance, and trousers on their legs; for shields they had wicker bucklers, with quivers hanging beneath them; they carried short spears, long bows, and reed arrows, and daggers that hung from the girdle by the right thigh.
The men who served in the army were the following: the Persians were equipped in this way: they wore on their heads loose caps called tiaras, and on their bodies embroidered sleeved tunics, with scales of iron like the scales of fish in appearance, and trousers on their legs; for shields they had wicker bucklers, with quivers hanging beneath them; they carried short spears, long bows, and reed arrows, and daggers that hung from the girdle by the right thigh.
[2] Their commander was
Otanes, son of
Amestris and father of
Xerxes' wife. They were formerly called by the
Greeks
Cephenes, but by themselves and their neighbors
Artaei.
[3] When
Perseus son of
Danae and
Zeus had come to
Cepheus son of
Belus and married his daughter
Andromeda, a son was born to him whom he called
Perses, and he left him there; for
Cepheus had no male offspring; it was from this
Perses that the
Persians took their name.
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Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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