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| | Pontic (DBA 58) by Anu Arora (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | What enemy they were fighting we do not know, though several plausible theories have been put forward; in any event, the unknown enemy suffered greatly at the hands of the Pontic scythed chariots and peltasts and lost some 7,000 (or 17,000?) of their number. |
 | | In 64 BC the Romans came in the form of 7 primarch ("original", not "quintus") legions from the German front commanded by the canny tactician Lucullus. |
 | | In 61 BC, on the plains before Ennium, Pharnaces deployed under cover of night his reformed army of 15,000 infantry trained as phalangites in the old style coupled with 30,000 mock legionaries, 10,000 Galatian mercenaries and some 500 scythed chariots plus assorted light horse. |
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