. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . n pro-Lipsius in his treatise De Milit. Roman, portion The mane was short and 62 NATIONS WHICH FURNISHED CAVALRY. Book VII. (v.) The Bactrians and Caspians, arrayed as their foot-soldiers. (vi.) The Libyans, equipped as theii- foot-sokliers, like therest; but all
. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . n pro-Lipsius in his treatise De Milit. Roman, portion The mane was short and 62 NATIONS WHICH FURNISHED CAVALRY. Book VII. (v.) The Bactrians and Caspians, arrayed as their foot-soldiers. (vi.) The Libyans, equipped as theii- foot-sokliers, like therest; but all riding in chariots. (vii.) The Caspeiiians and Paricanians, equipped as theirfoot-soldiers. (viii.) The Arabians, in the same array as their footmen, butall riding on camels, not inferior in fleetness to horses.^ black, as also was a tuft which termi-nated his tail. No line whatever ranalong his back or crossed his shoulders,as are seen in the tame species. Repre-sentations of them are found in the Assy-rian bas-reliefs, and one appears amongthe presents brought to the Persian king as tribute at Persepolis. (See the sub-joined woodcut.) Wild asses of thisspecies are common in the desert be-tween India and AfTghanistan (seeElphinstones Cabul, and compare § 25). They are naturally verywild, but are sometimes Wild Ass (Persepolis). Supra, iv. 170 and 189. ^ The MSS. give Caspians, whohave been already mentioned, in aproper connexion, with the conjectured, and the later echtorshave given, Caspeirians from Stephenof Byzantium, who quotes the name Casj)eirus as from Herodotus. (Herefers however to Book iii. instead ofBook vii., and his Caspeirus clearlyrepresents the Caspatyrus of iii. 102.)The Caspeirians ?vere a people on theborders of India (Steph. Byz. ????????;?rrj IvdiK^. Dionys. ap. Steph. xxii., and perhaps Ptolem. , pp. 201, 202). They seem to have been (See the inhabitants of , Essay i. p. 177.) The sp
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