Key to Easy Latin Stories for beginners/Part II/IV
IV.THE BODY-GUARD OF XERXES.
102.A tliousand foot soldiers used to follow Xerxes, the king of the Persians, the bravest and most noble of the Persians, carrying their spears erect: then another thousand horsemen selected from the Persians: and after the horsemen, ten thousand infantry picked from the rest of the Persians: of whom one thousand had golden pomegranates on their spears instead of points at the end, and surrounded the rest; but the nine thousand who were within them had silver pomegranates. Those also who carried their lances turned to the ground had golden pomegranates; and those who followed Xerxes most closely had golden apples.