on the safe side, let's call it three hundred cataphracts and three thousand infantry. Against Sittas' five hundred cataphracts and the two thousand infantrymen Hermogenes brought."
Ashot spat into the sea. "Lambs to the slaughter," he concluded.
Belisarius smiled at the Armenian's ferocious expression. Then, curious to see Ashot's reaction, he remarked:
"Heavy odds, against the infantry."
The Armenian sneered.
"Are you kidding? Against Hermogenes' infantry?" The cataphract shook his head firmly. "You've been gone for almost a year and a half, general. You haven't seen what Hermogenes has done with his troops. And the ones he brought to Constantinople were his best units. The finest Roman infantry since the days of the Principate. They'll chew their way right through that Bithynian garbage."
Belisarius
Ashot spat into the sea. "Lambs to the slaughter," he concluded.
Belisarius smiled at the Armenian's ferocious expression. Then, curious to see Ashot's reaction, he remarked:
"Heavy odds, against the infantry."
The Armenian sneered.
"Are you kidding? Against Hermogenes' infantry?" The cataphract shook his head firmly. "You've been gone for almost a year and a half, general. You haven't seen what Hermogenes has done with his troops. And the ones he brought to Constantinople were his best units. The finest Roman infantry since the days of the Principate. They'll chew their way right through that Bithynian garbage."
Belisarius