In front of the line, towards the river, were drawn up at wide intervals a hundred and fifty scythed chariots, which were designed to carry terror and confusion into the ranks of the Greeks.
In the front of Darius, were the scythed chariots with advanced bodies of cavalry.
When he marched into Cappadocia, he had six hundred scythed chariots, ten thousand horse, and eighty thousand foot.
He had one million of infantry, forty thousand cavalry, and two hundredscythed chariots, besides a number of elephants.
The strongest of the scythed chariots were judiciously posted by Artaxerxes in front of his line, in order that before the two armies engaged hand to hand they might break the enemy's ranks by the force of their charge.
On one occasion he withstood a charge of scythed chariots, and routed the enemy, and he also drove away the garrison of one of the passes, and gained the command of the road to Syria.
It was a fierce and for some time a doubtful fight, and seems to have been decided by the scythed chariots, which spread terror in the Bithynian ranks.
These scythed chariots faced the Greeks, whose ranks they were intended to break.
The Persian cavalry was made up to its full number of ten thousand men, and the scythed chariots were complete, a hundred of his own, and a hundred that Abradatas of Susa had provided.
Forward then, gentlemen, against the foe; drive our scythed chariots against their defenceless cars, let our armed cavalry charge their unprotected horse, and charge them home.
Compare the uselessness of the Persian scythed chariots at the battle of Cunaxa.
But of this number only nine hundred thousand were present at the battle, and one hundred and fifty scythed chariots; for Abrocomas, who was marching from Phœnicia, did not arrive till five days after the battle.
Of the enemy the number was said to be one million two hundred thousand, with two hundred scythed chariots.
And the scythed chariot, my friend Laeg," said Cuchulain.
No more the Warrior wears the garb of war, Sharps the strong steel, or mounts the scythed car; No more Judaea's sons dejected go, And hang the head and heave the sigh of woe.
Alike to him if Peace shall bless The multitude with happiness; Alike to him if frenzied War Careers triumphant on the embattled plain, And rolling on o'er myriads slain, With gore and wounds shall clog his scythed car.
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