Cavalry

and you will have for cavalry to support you the Median horse, the best cavalry troops in the world.

But when they saw a large number of Assyrian troops drawn up and their cavalry standing still, the Medes also came to a halt.

But don’t you see, my son, said the king, what a dense array of cavalry is standing there in line?

In that manner, by cancelling the existing punishment of public defaulters without substituting any other, he makes havoc of all our business,—the Assembly, the cavalry, the Council, the sacred funds, the civil revenue.

That is the law that ensures the supplementary supply for the expenses of meetings of the Assembly, religious services, the Council, the cavalry, and so forth, because the revenue from taxation is not sufficient for current expenses, and what we call the supplementary payments are made under the constraint of that law.

Further I recommend the provision of transports and other vessels, sufficient for the conveyance of half our cavalry.

Attached to them will be two hundred cavalry, fifty at least of them being Athenians, serving on the same terms as the infantry.

for the two hundred cavalry twelve talents, if each is to receive thirty drachmas a month.

Now the cavalry of the Thebans was in good training as a result of the war with the Orchomenians and the war with the Thespians, while the cavalry of the Lacedaemonians was exceedingly poor at that time.

After this, on the third or fourth day of the invasion, the horsemen advanced to the race-course in the sanctuary of Poseidon Gaeaochus by divisions, the Thebans in full force, the Eleans, and all the horsemen who were there of the Phocians, Thessalians, or Locrians.

And the horsemen of the Lacedaemonians, seemingly very few in number, were formed in line against them.