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horfes in a car, or chariot, and introduced the art into 

 Greece, as the Tbejfalians are faid, by the author above- 

 mentioned, to have been the firft pra(5tifers of the art 

 of riding, and of fighting on horfeback. 



To perpetuate the memory of fo great a benefit, and 

 fo noble an invention, Eri6thonius, after his death, was 

 placed in heaven, and is reprefented in the ancient 

 fphere, under the names of Juriga and Jgitator, viz. 

 Driver, or Charioteer. 



But what moft tends to confirm this etymology, and 

 fliews this colony in a clearer and fuller light, is, that 

 Ericbthonius or Erichtheus, is one of the titles of Neptune. 

 Lycophron, Tzetzes, Hefychius, and other ancient writers 

 affirm, that with the Athenians Erichthonhu is Neptune. 

 Plutarch, in two places, makes mention of Neptune 

 Ericbthonius, fo called, as our author conjedures, from 

 an opinion entertained among the Greeks, that he was 

 the firft who made them acquainted with the horfe, and 

 taught them how to manage him. Sophocles and Dio- 

 dorus Siculus atteft the fame thing, Paufanias fpeaks of 

 an Equejirim ftatue of Neptune, which was erecfted in 

 Athens ; and to account for the title of '{TrTCt©^^ or 

 Horfeman, being given to Neptune, has recourfe to equi- 

 tation, the invention of which art he proves to have 

 been attributed to him. The hymns of Homer afcribe 

 likewife two employments to this deity, Equitation and 

 Navigation. 



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