86 THE HISTORY AND ART 



did not obey and follow the mufck, but the mufick ac- 

 companied and marked the time of their motions : this 

 is eafily done, and there are books extant in the Ita- 

 lian language, with notes of this horfe-mufick. • 



In breaking and reducing their horfes to obedience, 

 they ufed to apply 'Torches and Firebrands'^ ^xo fuch as ob- 

 flinately refufed to go forward, and were what we call 

 rejiive, as well as to thofe which were abjecft and dull. 

 This /fry tryal, with additions of various kinds, equally 

 cruel and abfurd, defcended from the Roman horfe- 

 men to fucceeding riding-mailers, and are partly prac- 

 tifed at this day. 



The Ludus Trojanus, or Trojan Game^ is well known, 

 and faid to have been introduced by jEneas, when he 

 left Troy, and came to fettle in Italy ; and hence we 

 may have fome reafon to conclude it had long before 

 been performed in Pbrygia, and other parts of JJia : and 

 as the Greeks alfo had their military equeflrian evo- 

 lutions and games, • they might, perhaps, be indebted 

 for them to the Trojans, or other Afiatick nations. 



From Homer, indeed, we learn, that Chariot races were 

 exhibited at the funeral obfequies of Patroclus, there 

 being at that time no troops of Horfemen in the Grecian 

 army ; but Athenaeus fays, that the Spartans performed 

 Equejliian fports in the theatre, and adorned their horfes, 

 to celebrate the death of Hyacinthus ; and, if we may 



^ Equos tarde con/urgent es ad curfum Jlimulis facilufgue fulditis concila- 

 f»us. Sen EC. Lib. IL de Ira. 



judge 



