3o6 APPENDIX. 



In Italy the fame creed prevailed. The ETrufcans rc- 

 prefented Neptune fitting in a car, drawn by horfes, as 

 may be feen on a monument, among other antiquities 

 of that nation, publifhed by Dempller. Upon the fame 

 account, Romulus dedicated the games called Confualiu, 

 in which it was cuitoraary to crown the Horfes, to this 

 deity. 



The Jncients go ftill farther with them, Neptune was 

 deemed not only the inventor of the art of riding, but 

 alfo the Creator of the horfe. Nothing is more known 

 and common in their mythology. Virgil and Lncan 

 dearly prove it. He appears, therefore, to have the 

 juftell title to the name EreBbeus, which belonged to 

 him in its fulled fignification, not only as being the 

 author of riding, but likewife as having given the horfe 

 to man for his ufe and pleafure. He is therefore moil 

 properly fliled by Pamphus, the mod ancient hymno- 

 grapher, Yttttuv ^olrj^oi, the Giver of horfes. 



In this place, two doubts probably may occur ; it 

 may be afked, why this Egyptian colonift is called Nep- 

 tune or EreBheiis ? and why the invention of horfeman- 

 fhip ftiould be attributed by the ancients to both I and if 

 it might not be upon this account, that the Egyptians, who 

 came by Sea into Greece, were the firll introducers of 

 equitation in that country. This folution is not fatif- 

 fa6lory, another more juft be advanced ; Equitation, with 

 txiQ. ancients, was always the emblem of Navigation^ 

 The truth of this has been demonftrated by Monfieur 



Freret, 



