As for the barbarians, Paphlagonian horsemen to the number of a
 thousand took station beside Clearchus on the right wing, as did the
 Greek peltasts, on the left was Ariaeus, Cyru s’
 lieutenant, with the rest of the barbarian army, and in the centre Cyrus and his horsemen, about
 six hundred in number. These troopers were armed with breastplates
 and thigh-pieces and, all of them except Cyrus ,
 with helmets— Cyrus , however, went into the
 battle with his head unprotected. [In fact, it is said of the
 Persians in general that they venture all the perils of war with
 their heads unprotected.] And all their horses [with Cyrus ] had frontlets
 and breast-pieces; and the men carried, besides their other weapons,
 Greek sabres. And now it was midday, and the enemy
 were not yet in sight; but when afternoon was coming on, there was
 seen a rising dust, which appeared at first like a white cloud, but
 some time later like a kind of blackness in the plain, extending
 over a great distance. As the enemy came nearer and nearer, there
 were presently flashes of bronze here and there, and spears and the
 hostile ranks began to come into sight. There were horsemen in white cuirasses on the left wing of the enemy,
 under the command, it was reported, of Tissaphernes; next to them
 were troops with wicker shields and, farther on, hoplites with
 wooden shields which reached to their feet, these latter being
 Egyptians, people said; and then more horsemen and more bowmen. All
 these troops were marching in national divisions, each nation in a
 solid square.