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[2] First the scythed chariots swung into action at full gallop and created great alarm and terror among the Macedonians,1 especially since Mazaeus2 in command of the cavalry made their attack more frightening by supporting it with his dense squadrons of horse.

1 Curtius 4.15.3; Arrian. 3.13.5.

2 Mazaeus appears below (chap. 59.5) in command of the Persian right wing, not the left.

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