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was a far better bred animal than the ideal Asiatic horse of the 

 same period. The Tarentine fragment is held to have been 

 part of a chariot group, but there is no reason why it may not 

 have been part of a monument erected over a favourite horse, as 



Fig. 79. Fresco showing a Samnite warrior: Paestum. 



was the fashion at Agrigentum (p. 276), or it may have formed 

 part of a dedication, such as a group of horses and captive 

 women — the work of Agelaidas of Argos — dedicated at a much 

 earlier period by the Tarentines to celebrate their victory over 

 their inveterate foes the Messapians. 



