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69The Arabians wore loose mantles[68] girt up, and they carried at their right side bows that bent backward[69] of great length. The Ethiopians had skins of leopards and lions tied upon them, and bows made of a slip[70] of palm-wood, which were of great length, not less than four cubits, and for them small arrows of reed with a sharpened stone at the head instead of iron, the same stone with which they engrave seals: in addition to this they had spears, and on them was the sharpened horn of a gazelle by way of a spear-head, and they had also clubs with knobs upon them. Of their body they used to smear over half with white,[71] when they went into battle, and the other half with red.[72] Of the Arabians and the Ethiopians who dwelt above Egypt the commander was Arsames, the son of Dareios and of Artystone, the daughter of Cyrus, whom Dareios loved most of all his wives, and had an image made of her of beaten gold.
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