camels
animal · 3 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
brigade of camels · camel corps · pack-animals · the camels
in the texts
Cyropaedia
Camels gathered for military use and fitted with bowmen for battlefield advantage.
For the camel corps, bowmen were detailed, two upon each camel.
He also had a large number of camels, some collected from among his friends and some taken in war, all brought together.
Or again, if you heard that they have camels on which they will ride up to us, and a hundred horses could not endure the sight of any one of them?
Letters
Animals under the care of a brother commended to Antiochus.
The brother in charge of the camels I commend to you.
The Histories
Camels carrying Xerxes' provisions, singled out and killed nightly by lions despite the presence of other animals and men.
As Xerxes marched by this route, lions attacked the camels which carried his provisions;