t6 the history and art 



The horfes o£ Gaul were alfo ufed by the Romans, 

 wlio held them in confiderable efteem, as appears from 

 many paflTages of ancient authors. Horace makes 

 mention of them, and Lucan particularly celebrates the 

 Sequani, or Burgundians, for their fkill in riding, and 

 the fupplenefs of their horfes. 



Optima gens Jlexh in gyrum Seqiiana frcenis. 



The Sequani the wheeling horfe who guide. 



Rowe. 



The German horfes alfo were well known to them ; 

 they are mentioned by Csefar * and Tacitus, but by the 

 latter not much to their credit. 



Csefar fpeaks of the Suevi, an ancient, great, and 

 warlike people of Germany, as having had their horfes 

 fo trained and difciplined, that when their riders dif- 

 mounted in battle to fight on foot, they would never 

 flir from the fpot where they were left, but wait 

 with the greateft confcancy and patience their matter's 

 ■ return *. 



Contrary to the pra(5tice of latter times, and con- 

 trary to the rules of art (founded upon the truth of 

 nature) thefe people were fond of making their horfes 

 amble^ and taught them to go in this pace by the help 

 of cords, tied to their legs, which controlled their 

 fteps, fo as to make them move the two legs of the 

 fame fide at once, and then follow with the other two» 

 which two motions conflituted tlie amble. 



■^ Csef. Comment. lib. 4. 



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