Key to Easy Latin Stories for beginners/Part I/V
V.THE EQUIPMENT OF PERSIAN SOLDIERS.
15.The Persians are equipped in this manner. On the head they wear caps ; these they call tiaras : about the body, tunics of various colours, with sleeves, and cuirasses with iron scales in the likeness of fishes: breeches on their legs: but for shields (they carry) hurdles of osier. They have quivers hung from the back; their spears are short, but their bows long; their arrows are (made) of reeds ; moreover, by the right thigh a dagger is suspended from the belt.