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a similar performance taking place before a king of Southern 

 India, where, as we have seen, all the horses were imported 

 from Arabia; again, the Iberian horses, i.e. the horses of 

 Southern Spain, derived directly from Libya, were noted for 

 the same docility, and their descendants, the Pampas horses of 

 South America, retain that quality, whilst the dancing and 



FIG. 78. Fragment of Sculpture from Tarentum (4th cent. B.C.). 



performing horses in modern hippodromes seem always to be 

 Arabs. The extreme readiness of the Sybarite horses to learn 

 dancing itself points to their having in their veins a considerable 

 infusion of Libyan blood. 



Thurii, which was founded on the ruins of Sybaris in 

 443 B.C., revived the horse-breeding tradition of the older town, 

 and it is most important to note that according to Tacitus 1 



1 Ann. xiv. 21. 



