After this, as Abradatas observed that Cyrus was busily engaged with the scythe-bearing chariots and the mailed horses and riders, he tried to contribute from his own cavalry as many as a hundred chariots like them; and he made ready to lead them in person upon his chariot.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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