There are horsemen in these nations, but not all of them furnished cavalry. Only the following did so: the Persians, equipped like their infantry, except that some of them wore headgear of hammered bronze and iron.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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