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Goshtasb Unhorses Ilyas

Goshtasb Unhorses Ilyas

From C5.15, Goshtasb Battles Ilyas. It illustrates C5.15.10–15:

  • C5.15.10
    When brave Goshtasb beheld Ilyas draw near,He said, “The hour to prove my strength is here.”
  • C5.15.11
    Both riders spurred their horses to assail,With lance and shafts to pierce through jowshan’s scale.
  • C5.15.12
    Ilyas loosed an arrow from his stand;Its point struck home and gashed Goshtasb’s hand.
  • C5.15.13
    Goshtasb drove at the jowshan, lance held low,And through its iron scales he pierced the foe.
  • C5.15.14
    He hurled him from his horse, too dazed to fight,Then reached and seized his hand and gripped it tight.
  • C5.15.15
    He dragged him through the ranks before their eyes,And gave him up to Caesar as his prize.

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