Cavalry

And when Cyrus saw many horsemen over against them, he asked:

So then Cyaxares took some of the most powerful horses and men and advanced.

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.

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

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.

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

For the richest men kept the horses, and it was only when the ban was called out that the appointed trooper presented himself;

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.