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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 7, chapter 62 (search)
The Medes in the army were equipped like the Persians; indeed, that fashion of armor is Median, not Persian. Their commander was Tigranes, an Achaemenid. The Medes were formerly called by everyone Arians,Modern philology gives the name “Aryan” of course a very much wider extension; which indeed was beginning even in the time of Strabo. but when the Colchian woman Medea came from Athens to the Arians they changed their name, like the Persians. This is the Medes' own account of themselves. The Cissians in the army were equipped like the Persians, but they wore turbans instead of caps. Their commander was Anaphes son of Otanes. The HyrcaniansNot mentioned in the list of Darius subjects in Hdt. 3; they lived on the S.E. coast of the Caspian. were armed like the Persians; their leader was Megapanus, who was afterwards the governor of Babylo