scythe-bearing chariots · Atlas

in the texts

Reformed war chariots with protective boxes and scythes designed for shock action.

Such was the work of Abradatas;

I am glad, Cyrus, that you let me know what you needed.

And as Cyrus constructed them at that time, such even to this day are the chariots in use in the king’s dominions.

Chariots armed with scythes intended to cut through Greek ranks, though they prove ineffective in the battle.

In front of them were the so-called scythe-bearing chariots, at some distance from one another;

The enemy, it was reported, numbered one million two hundred thousand and had two hundred scythe-bearing chariots;

But of the forces just enumerated only nine hundred thousand, with one hundred and fifty scythe-bearing chariots, were present at the battle;