Cadusians
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Cadusian cavalry · Cadusian infantry · the Cadusian
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Large people hostile to Assyria who join Cyrus with targeteers and horsemen.
the Cadusians, a large and powerful nation, are most bitter enemies of his;
Well then, said he, do you think that these two nations would like to join us in an attack upon the Assyrian?
And thereafter a new division was added to the army, consisting of Cadusians, about twenty thousand targeteers and about four thousand horsemen;
Hellenica
A people near Media whose revolt occasions the Persian King's campaign and subsequent illness.
At this point Cyrus sent for Lysander, for a messenger had come to him from his father with word that he was ill and summoned him, he being at Thamneria, in Media, near the country of the Cadusians, against whom he had made an expedition, for they were in revolt.