The chapter opens with the origins of riding as the ancients told them and with examples of cavalry in action. It then treats cavalry deployment (light cavalry, advanced-guards, flank-guards, outflankers and koursores), cavalry fighting cavalry and infantry and supporting it, and the condition and training of horses and horsemen.
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According to Palaephatus, it was Thessalian youths from a village called Nephele during the reign of Ixion, who first thought of riding horses, so that they could fight a herd of bulls ravaging the country. These men were called Kentauroi and were the origin of the Centaur myth. Until that time, men did not ride horses but only used chariots.
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