And from the Cissian fortress old,[f9]
Strong in the ordered ranks of war
Forth they went, the warriors bold;
Horseman and footman and seaman went,
A vast and various armament.
Amistres, Artaphrenes, led the van,
Megabátes, Astaspes, obeyed the ban;
Persian leaders, kings from afar
Followed the great King’s call to the war.
Forth they went with arrow and bow,[n1]