There are also three kinds of mounted force. For one is cavalry, another [is fighting] with chariots, another [is fighting] with elephants. Of cavalry one kind is simply so called, cavalrymen and the units mounted on horses; the other [is] a)/fippoi.[1] And a)/fippoi [are] those who ride on two horses without saddles tied together; they leap from one to the other, when need summons. But of cavalry proper one kind is in full armor, which provides both horses and horsemen in armor; but the other kind is without armor. Some [are] spearmen or pikemen or lancemen: for they are called by these three names. These are the ones who fight from horseback close to the enemy with spears. Some of them, who are called Tarentines,[2] use javelins; others, who are called horse-archers, use bows. Others are far-slingers, meaning those who shoot from a distance. Some merely shoot missiles, but do not engage the enemy hand-to-hand; these are called horse-javelinists and properly Tarentines. Others at first shoot from a distance with light javelins, then coming close they engage with the enemy fighting either with swords or with axes. They call these light [cavalry].