So the Armenians led on. And when they came near, the Chaldaeans already there raised the battle cry, according to their custom, and charged upon them. And the Armenians, according to their custom, failed to sustain the charge.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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