When the king is on the march his attendants, of course, are provided with tents and encamp with him, winter and summer alike.

[3] From the first the Cyrus made it a custom to have his tent pitched facing east, and later on he fixed the space to be left between himself and his lancers, and then he stationed his bakers on the right and his cooks on the left, the cavalry on the right again, and the baggage-train on the left.

Everything else was so arranged that each man knew his own quarters, their position and their size.

[4] When the army was packing up after a halt, each man put together the baggage he used himself, and others placed it on the animals: so that at one and the same moment all his bearers came to the baggage-train and each man laid his load on his own beasts.

Thus all the tents could be struck in the same time as one.