In wars they used red garments for two reasons: first, the colour they thought was a manly colour, and second, the blood-red hue causes more terror in the minds of inexperienced. Also, if anyone of them receive a wound, it is advantageous that it be not easily discovered by the enemy, but be unperceived by reason of the identity of colour.Cf. Xenophon, , 2. 3; the scholium on Aristophanes, , 319; Aelian, , vi. 6; Valerius Maximus, ii. 6. 2.