thus were these equipped; and they acknowledged as their
leader Ariomardos the brother of Artyphios. The Sarangians were
conspicuous among the rest by wearing dyed garments; and they had
boots reaching up to the knee, and Median bows and spears: of these
the commander was Pherendates the son of Megabazos. The Pactyans
were wearers of skin coats 67 and had native bows and daggers: these
acknowledged as their commander Artayntes the son of Ithamitres.

68. The Utians and Mycans and Paricanians were equipped like the
Pactyans: of these the commanders were, Arsamenes the son of Dareios
of the Utians and Mycans, and of the Paricanians Siromitres the son of
Oiobazos.

69. The Arabians wore loose mantles 68 girt up, and they carried
at their right side bows that bent backward 69 of great length. The
Ethiopians had skins of leopards and lions tied upon them, and bows made
of a slip 70 of palm-wood, which were of great length, not less than
four cubits, and for them small arrows of reed with a sharpened stone at
the head instead of iron, the same stone with which they engrave seals:
in addition to this they had spears, and on them was the sharpened horn
of a gazelle by way of a spear-head, and they had also clubs with knobs
upon them. Of their body they used to smear over half with white, 71
when they went into battle, and the other half with red. 72 Of the
Arabians and the Ethiopians who dwelt above Egypt the commander was
Arsames, the son of Dareios and of Artystone, the daughter of Cyrus,
whom Dareios loved most of all his wives, and had an image made of her
of beaten gold.

70. Of the Ethiopians above Egypt and of the Arabians the commander, I
say, was Arsames; but the Ethiopians from the direction of the sunrising
(for the Ethiopians were in two bodies) had been appointed to serve with
the Indians, being in no way different from the other Ethiopians, but in
their language and in the nature of their hair only; for the Ethiopians
from the East are straight-haired, but those of Libya have hair more
thick and woolly than that of any other men. These Ethiopians from Asia
were armed for the most part like the Indians, but they had upon their
heads the skin of a horse's forehead flayed off with the ears and the
mane, and the mane served instead of a crest, while they had the ears of
the horse set up straight and stiff: and instead of shields they used to
make defences to hold before themselves of the skins of cranes.

71. The