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on the right or left of the driver, as the nature of the 

 fervice fliould require : on the coins and marbles we 

 find the officer fometimes on the right, fometimes on 

 the left : in the impreffion of a coin given by Scheffer, 

 the officer is on the left-hand ; in a baflb releivo in 

 the church of St. Felix at: Spalatro, as publiflied by Mr. 

 Adams, the officer is on the right. 



The bodies Hyperteria or Capfas, ufed in the race, were 

 merely adapted to the carrying one perfonj the diffe- 

 rence of thefe are plainly difcernable in the various 

 defcriptions of them. There is in fome of the exemp- 

 lars of the chariots in the race, an appearance of the 

 charioteer's being bound or braced in by a belt, or 

 fomething like it, vfhich may perhaps have been of 

 ufe in that cafe; and indeed fome of the accidents 

 which we read of in the race, feem to confirm this 

 fuppolition. But this could not be the cafe in military 

 fervice, for neither the acTtions nor the accidents in 

 battle, fo frequently defcribed, could have been fo per- 

 formed, or have happened, if the charioteer, or officer 

 ferving in the chariot, were fo tied in. I refer to fuch 

 a<5lions and accidents, as the officers difmounting and 

 remounting, and tumbling headlong to the ground out 

 of the chariot when flain. 



The next confideration will be to examine the har- 

 nefs of the horfes, and the manner of tackling them 

 to the yoke, and of fixing the Toke to the Temo of the 

 carriage. The only parts of harnefs which I have 

 met with in reading, or feen in drawings, are the col- 

 lar 



