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63The Assyrians served with helmets about their heads made of bronze or plaited in a Barbarian style which it is not easy to describe; and they had shields and spears, and daggers like the Egyptian knives,[60] and moreover they had wooden clubs with knobs of iron, and corslets of linen. These are by the Hellenes called Syrians, but by the Barbarians they have been called always[61] Assyrians: [among these were the Chaldeans]:[62] and the commander of them was Otaspes the son of Artachaies.
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