ANCIENT CHARIOT. 28^ 



This oiy.zpov is feen, belidcs the temo, in plate 130, of 

 vol. I. of the drawings of Mr. Hamilton's Tufcan vafes. 

 This trace was extended, between the jugal horfe and 

 extrajugal horfe, from the riapyjop/a to the axis. It will 

 appear that this pareoria was not attached to the yoke, 

 but was limply a trace by which the collar of the 

 extrajugal horfe (called therefore Iloifriopoc) was joined 

 to that of the next jugal horfe. 



In the inftance of three horfes harnelTed to the cha- 

 riot of Achillesy lent to Patrochis, we read that after Juto- 

 medon had harnelTed the two immortal ileeds, Zanthos 

 and Balios, under the yoke, he harnefled Pedafos by 

 the UxpYjopix, or extrajugal traces. This extrajugal 

 horfe was called, from this particular harnefs, Hoccriopog^ 

 or, from the long trace by which he drew, called Xsipoiy 

 I,£ifOCOC, or I,sip(X<pof>oc, which the Latins tranflated fu- 

 nalis. 



The effed of the accident which befell this horfe, 

 as defcribed by Homer, proves that this horfe was not 

 harnelTed to the yoke. He fays, that upon this horfe's. 

 being wounded and falling down dead, the jugal horfes 

 were diftradted, or drawn afunder as far as the yoke 

 would permit without breaking, for although the yoke 

 creeked with this flrefs upon it, it was not broken, 

 nor were either of the horfes feparated from it. The 

 coupling reins, called, by Virgil, concordia frsna, were 

 confounded and entangled. But the moment that this 

 extrajugal horfe was feparated by cutting the trace, 

 the jugal pair flood again in their due order, and the 



reins- 



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