With that the host of Bacchides removed out of their tents, and stood over against them, their horsemen being divided into two troops, and their slingers and archers going before the host, and they that marched in the foreward were all mighty men.
Then Bacchides's army advanced from their camp and took up position facing them, their cavalry split into two divisions, with slingers and archers leading the way, and their finest soldiers in the front line.