Cataphract, Clibanarii, whatever, against Infantry

[recondicom]

Hailog, Recondicom

Sorry for butting in. :? )

That’s not my point. Sarmatia is just the big East area to the Baltic sea; which stars at the Syrian border and It varies in size accordingly. The term taefali could apply to all different tribes of sarmatians but also to slavs and others as attested by the customs. Even the Syri could be called Sarmatians and so when they (Josephus) enrolled in Solomon armies as cavalry they were Sarmatians as well. The reason I said this is because they requested women as payment.
More so… I’m speculating whether the sarmatians before the Eastern/Western Empire were more semitic than Aryan… and whether they were transported by sea and not by land. Let’s not forget the elephants.
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