OF HORSEMANSHIP. 47 



highly efteemed, and which were remarkably excel- 

 lent in war. 



The Jttic territories were not without their merit ; 

 and Elis was eminently diftinguiflied for the horfes 

 which fhe produced, fo admired in the Olympic race. 



The Tbracian horfes are commended, as well as many 

 others of inferior note, whofe chara6ler and fame are 

 not confiderable enough to entitle them to any parti- 

 cular notice. 



It was cuftomary with the Grecians to give par- 

 ticiilar names to their horfes, as modern nations 

 do- at this day. Thus the horfes of Achilles were 

 called Xanthiis and Baliiu ; that of Adrajlus, Arion -, Aura 

 was the name of the famous mare who won the 

 prize, without her rider, at the Olympic games, and 

 the property of Phidolas the Corinthian. Other names 

 were ^oivi^, a Phoenix, Kopoc^, a Crow, and fo on thro' 

 a variety of inftances, as with us, too trifling to be 

 enumerated. 



They diftinguifhed likewife a particular clafs of horfes, 

 by the name of Lycofpades. Thefe were fuch as when 

 colts had been purfued and attacked in the mountains 

 and forefts by JVohes. They were highly prized, and 

 believed to be endowed with great fwiftnefs, if they 

 had outrun and efcaped from the purfuits of the 

 wolves ; or if they had received any hurt or mark, 

 the fear was thought honourable, and a proof of their 

 courage in refilling and fighting with the wolves 

 which had attacked them. Others interpret this ap* 



pellatioQ- 



