(Merivale, chapter xxxiv.) (19) That is to say, looking towards the west; meaning that they came from the other side of the equator.

(See Book IX., 630.) (20) See Book I., 117.
(21) A race called Heniochi, said to be descended from the charioteer of Castor and Pollux.
(22) "Effusis telis".

I have so taken this difficult expression.
Herodotus (7, 60) says the men were numbered in ten thousands by being packed close together and having a circle drawn round them.

After the first ten thousand had been so measured a fence was put where the circle had been, and the subsequent ten thousands were driven into the enclosure.

It is not unlikely that they piled their weapons before being so measured, and Lucan's account would then be made to agree with that of Herodotus.