Thus, by an anticipation of 600 years, we have brought before us a picture of the times, when, "_Their limbs all iron_, and their souls all flame, A countless host, the red-cross warriors came." ] [Footnote 7: Herod. B. vii. 61. thus speaks of these tunics:--"Κιθῶινας-Ιωτοΰς χειριδoτoὺς ποικίλους λεπίδος σιδηρέης όψιν ἰχθυoειδέος."] [Footnote 8: τὴν κεφαλὴν δι' ὃλου σφηκοῦντες--literally pinching in like a wasp; the frontal fitting closely to the shape of the horse's head and face.] [Footnote 9: oἷον ἐμβεβλημένος.] [Footnote 10: See Herod. B. iii. 111.] [Footnote 11: See the previous description of the Persian amour.] [Footnote 12: See note in Blakesley's Herod. vii. 40.] [Footnote 13: Like the Parthians-- "... versis animosum equis Parthum."--Hor. I Od. xix 10. ] [Footnote 14: Arrows somewhat resembling these are used by the wild Bushmen of Africa for destroying the ostrich and other kinds of game. "These insignificant looking arrows are about two feet six inches in length; they consist of a slender reed, with a sharp bone head, thoroughly poisoned with a composition of which the principal ingredients are obtained, sometimes from a succulent herb, having thick leaves, yielding a poisonous milky juice, and sometimes from the jaws of snakes."--Wood's Nat. Hist.] [Footnote 15: Όστέον, a bone; Όΐστός, an arrow.] [Footnote 16: χεῖρα.]· [Footnote 17: Ανθεσιν Νειλώοις.--The water lily of the Nile.] [Footnote 18: "At Syene there was, in later times a well, the bottom of which, the sun was believed to illuminate at one time of the year, it being supposed that Syene was under the Tropic."--Blackesley's Herod., vol. 1. p. 187.] [Footnote 19: Nἕιλος, from νέη ἰλύς, new soil.] [Footnote 20: ν = 50; ε = 5; ι: = 10; λ = 30; o = 70; σ = 200; total, 365.] [Footnote 21: ... "vetus, vietus, veternosus, senex Colore mustellino."--Terence. ] BOOK X. We have now said sufficient about Syene, which, from the brink of danger, was at once restored to security and happiness, by one man's clemency. Hydaspes, having sent the greater part of his army forward, proceeded in person towards Ethiopia, followed by the applauses and blessings both of Persians and Syenæans. At first he marched along the Nile, or the parts bordering upon that river; but when he reached the cataracts, having sacrificed to the river, and to the gods of the boundaries, he turned aside, and travelled through the inland country. When he arrived at Philœ, he rested, and refreshed his army there for two days; and then as before, sending part of it forward, together with the captives, he stayed some little time behind them, to direct the repair of the walls, and to place a garrison, and soon afterwards set out himself. He dispatched an express consisting of two troopers, who changing their horses at every station, and using all speed, were to announce his victory at Meröe.[1]