22 THE HISTORY AND ART 



Accrque Gelonus 

 Cum Juglt in Rhodopen, atque in deferta Getanim, 

 Et lac co77iTetu?n cum fanguine potat equina. 



The fierce Gelonian when for favage food, 



He blends the milky flream with horfe's blood *. 



The materials of which the Sarmatians compofed 

 their armour, was taken from the hoofs of horfes, 

 which they cut into little plates, like fcales, which they 

 pierced and fewed together with the fmews of oxen 

 or horfes. 



Cappadocia flands eminently praifed for its horfes ; 

 which, from the accounts given of them by hiftorians, 

 and the commendations beftowed by the poets, who 

 defcribe their beauty and merit in the moft lively and 

 ftriking terms, feem to have claimed the precedence 

 of the reft of their fpecies. Oppian, Gratius, iElian, 

 Nemefianus, Pliny, Vegetius, and Solinus, Pollux, 

 Varro, and many others, give them the higheft cha- 

 racfler. Oppian particularly celebrates their ftately car- 

 riage, and loftinefs of aftion ; and fays, that when 

 young, they are delicate and weak, but that ftrength 

 comes with years, and, contrary to other horfes, 

 they are better and more powerful when advanced 

 in age. 



* Martial alfo fays, 



Venit £5? e poto Sarmaia pvjius equo. 



The 



