Early on the following day Cyrus was sacrificing, 1 and the rest of the army, after breakfasting and pouring libations, proceeded to array themselves with many fine tunics and corselets and helms. And they armed their horses also with frontlets and breastplates; the saddle-horses also they armed with thigh-pieces and the chariot teams with side-armour. And so the whole army flashed with bronze and was resplendent in purple.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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