[62] Cyrus himself gave up the regular march and dashed forward at their head, shouting: "Brave men to the front! Who follows me?
Who will lay the first Assyrian low ?" At this the men behind took up the shout till it rang through the field like a battle-cry: "Who follows?
Brave men to the front!" [63] Thus the Persians closed.

But the enemy could not hold their ground; they turned and fled to their entrenchments.

[64] The Persians swept after them, many a warrior falling as they crowded in at the gates or tumbled into the trenches.

For in the rout some of the chariots were carried into the fosse, and the Persians sprang down after them and slew man and horse where they fell.

[65] Then the Median troopers, seeing how matters stood, charged the Assyrian cavalry, who swerved and broke before them, chased and slaughtered, horse and rider, by their conquerors.