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[2] 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 Hyrcanians1 were armed like the Persians; their leader was Megapanus, who was afterwards the governor of Babylon.

1 Not mentioned in the list of Darius subjects in Hdt. 3; they lived on the S.E. coast of the Caspian.

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