persian cataphract造句

• Persian cataphracts were a contiguous division known as the " mounted archer as well as a cataphract.
• Persian cataphract archery also seems to have been again revived in late antiquity, perhaps as a response ( or even a stimulus ) to an emerging trend of the late Roman army towards mobility and versatility in their means of warfare.
• Ammianus Marcellinus, a noted Roman historian and general who served in the army of Constantius II in Gaul and Persia and fought against the Sassanid army under Julian the Apostate, described the sight of a contingent of massed Persian cataphracts in the 4th century:
• Eastern and Persian cataphracts, particularly those of the Sassanid Empire, carried bows as well as blunt-force weapons, to soften up enemy formations before an eventual attack, reflecting upon the longstanding Persian tradition of horse archery and its use in battle by successive Persian Empires.
• The elite of the Persian cataphracts, known as the Pushtigban Body Guards, were sourced from the very best of the " Savaran " divisions and were akin in their deployment and military role to their Roman counterparts, the Praetorian Guard, used exclusively by Roman emperors.
• During the Lazic wars initiated in the Caucasus by Justinian I, it was noted by Procopius that Persian cataphract archers were adept at firing their arrows in very quick succession and saturating enemy positions but with little hitting power, resulting in mostly non-incapacitating limb wounds for the enemy.