Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C.; History, Ancient
75. The Thracians served having fox-skins upon their heads and tunics
about their body, with loose mantles of various colours thrown round
over them; and about their feet and lower part of the leg they wore
boots of deer-skin; and besides this they had javelins and round
bucklers and small daggers. These when they had crossed over into Asia
came to be called Bithynians, but formerly they were called, as they
themselves report, Strymonians, since they dwelt upon the river Strymon;
and they say that they were driven out of their abode by the Teucrians
and Mysians. Of the Thracians who lived in Asia the commander was
Bassakes the son of Artabanos.
76.... 73 and they had small shields of raw ox-hide, and each man
carried two hunting-spears of Lykian workmanship. 74 On their heads they
wore helmets of bronze, and to the helmets the ears and horns of an ox
were attached, in bronze, and upon them also there were crests; and the
lower part of their legs was wrapped round with red-coloured strips of
cloth. Among these men there is an Oracle of Ares.
77. The Meonian Cabelians, who are called Lasonians, had the same
equipment as the Kilikians, and what this was I shall explain when in
the course of the catalogue I come to the array of the Kilikians. The
Milyans had short spears, and their garments were fastened on with
buckles; some of them had Lykian bows, and about their heads they had
caps made of leather. Of all these Badres the son of Hystanes was in
command.
78. The Moschoi had wooden caps upon their heads, and shields and small
spears, on which long points were set. The Tibarenians and Macronians
and Mossynoicoi served with equipment like that of the Moschoi, and
these were arrayed together under the following commanders,--the Moschoi
and Tibarenians under Ariomardos, who was the son of Dareios and
of Parmys, the daughter of Smerdis son of Cyrus; the Macronians and
Mossynoicoi under Artaÿctes the son of Cherasmis, who was governor of
Sestos on the Hellespont.
79. The Mares wore on their heads native helmets of plaited work, and
had small shields of hide and javelins; and the Colchians wore wooden
helmets about their heads, and had small shields of raw ox-hide and
short spears, and also knives. Of the Mares and Colchians the commander
was Pharandates the son of Teaspis. The Alarodians and Saspeirians
served armed like the Colchians; and of these the commander was
Masistios the son of Siromitres.
80. The island tribes which came with the army from the Erythraian Sea,
belonging to the islands in which the king settles those who are called
the "Removed," 75 had clothing and arms very like those of the Medes. Of
these islanders the commander was Mardontes the son of Bagaios, who in
the year after these events was a commander of the army at Mykale and
lost his life in the battle.
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