Videos de Evolutions

Nothing is said by Herodotus of the Persian cavalry taking any part in the battle of Marathon, although he mentions that Hippias recommended the Persians to land at Marathon, because the plain was favourable for cavalry evolutions. In the life of Miltiades, which is usually cited as the production of Cornelius Nepos, it is said that Miltiades protected his flanks from the enemy´s horse by an abattis of felled trees. While he was on the high ground he would have allowed him to erect it on the plain. It calls our attention to a passage in Suidas, where the proverb...????? ?????? is said to have originated from some Ionian Greeks who where serving compulsorily in the army of Datis, contriving to inform Miltiades that the Persian cavalry had gone away, whereupon Miltiades immediately joined battle and gained the victory. There may probably be a gleam of truth in this legend. If Datis´s cavalry was numerous, as the abundant pasture of Euboea were close at hand, the Persian general, when he thought, from the inacti