Histories

Herodotus

Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).

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 Hyrcanians [*](Not 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 Babylon [44.4,32.55] (deserted settlement), Babil, Iraq, AsiaBabylon.