X E N O P H O N's 



TREATISE 



O N 



HORSEMANSHIP. 



From the Original Greek. 



INTRODUCTION. 



AS it has happened that much of our time has 

 been fpent in riding, and we think that we 

 have thereby acquired a fkili in horfemanfhip, 

 we are defirous of informing the younger part of our 

 friends, what method we judge the moft proper for 

 them to ufe in the management of their horfes. A 

 treatife on this fubjeifl has been written by the fame 

 Simon *, who dedicated a brazen flatue of an horfe in 

 the Eleujinium f at Athens, and carved upon the bafis a 



* Little is known of this horfeman and writer, but what is preferv- 

 ed of him by Xenophon. — His Treatife quoted by our author is lofl:. 

 He is mentioned likewife by Julius Pollux, Apfyrtus, and others. 



-f- The Temple of Ceres. 



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