OF HORSEMANSHIP. 59 



only a cloth, like the Greeks, faftened with a furcingk^ 

 or elfe fitting upon the bare back. 



Occafionally too the riders were tied and bound to 

 their horfes by thefe girths, that they might fit with 

 greater firmnefs and fecurity •, but the pradlice was 

 imprudent and dangerous, as they were, by this 

 means, expofed to be dragged, and torn by the horfe, 

 in cafe they were unfeated, like the warriour defcribed 

 by Silius Italicus *. 



■Raphiirque pavcre 



Tragus equiy vinHis connexa ad cinguJa membris f. 



Lock-faddles, now but little ufed, are liable to the fame 

 objeftion. 



Whenever an inferior perfon on borfeback met his fupe- 

 rior, or a raagiftrate, or any one of diftinguifhed rank 

 and charatfler, the form of paying his civilities, and tefl;i- 

 fying refped, was by defcending from his horfe, unco- 

 vering his head, and retiring on one fide of the road. 

 This ceremony, Seneca % fays, he always obfcrved, when- 

 ever he met a conful or prastor ; to whom thefe ho- 

 nours were due. Apuleius mentions the fame manner 

 of falutation ; and fays, that when any one happened 

 to be on horfeback, and met any eminent man, who 

 w-as entitled to particular notice and regard, the horfe- 

 man, although in hafte, and going very faft, would 

 immediately flop, alight, and changing the wand or 



* Lib. 4- Punicior. -f Florid, lib. 3. J Epift. 65. 



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