Hyrcanians

But Cyrus, finding the nations in Asia also independent in exactly the same way, started out with a little band of Persians and became the leader of the Medes by their full consent and of the Hyrcanians by theirs;

Now the Hyrcanians are neighbours of the Assyrians;

Such was Hystaspas’s speech, and all the rest agreed with it.

in Hyrcania the common people keep dogs at public expense, the nobles at their own:

Then, as the result of their shouting and lighting of beacon fires, there came to their assistance Itamenes with his own force, and from Comania Assyrian hoplites and Hyrcanian horsemen—these also being mercenaries in the service of the King—to the number of eighty, as well as about eight hundred peltasts, and more from Parthenium, and more from Apollonia and from the near-by places, including horsemen.