And Abradatas also lost no more time, but 1 shouting, Now, friends, follow me, he swept forward, showing no mercy to his horses but drawing blood from them in streams with every stroke of the lash. And the rest of the chariot-drivers also rushed forward with him. And the opposing chariots at once broke into flight before them; some, as they fled, took up their dismounted 2 fighting men, others left theirs behind.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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