6 HISTORY OF THE 



chariot, mount and gallop them to the Grecian 

 camp. That in the Odyssey (E 371) is in des- 

 cribing Ulysses after his shipwreck, as bestriding 

 a beam of wood among the waves, in the atti- 

 tude of a man on horseback — 



Ittttov iXocvvoou — 



a passage the exact meaning of which is pre- 

 served in none of the published translations. 



Again in a metaphor in the 1 5th book of the 

 IHad: 



** So when a horseman, from the watery mead, 

 (Skill'd in the manage of the bounding steed) 

 Drives four fair coursers, practised to obey. 

 To some great city, through the pubhc way ; 

 Safe in his art, as side by side they run. 

 He shifts his seat, and vaults from one to one ; 

 And now to this and now to that he flies ; 

 Admiring numbers follow vnth their eyes." 



Virgil, in his 3rd Georgic, attributes the 

 first breaking of horses for riding to the Lapitse, 

 thus translated by Dryden : 



" Bold Erichthonieus was the first who joined 

 Four horses for the rapid race design'd. 

 And o'er the dusty wheels presiding sat : 

 The Lapitse to chariots add the state 



