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THE HORSE. 



Horses paid 

 as tribute. 



Eoman 



horses. 



Greece," that in the royal stud near Pella 

 three hundred stallions and thirty thou- 

 sand mares were kept. Horses were 

 evidently more highly esteemed by the 

 ancients, and were given as presents and 

 often demanded as tribute. 



Strabo informs us that the Cappado- 

 cians paid an annual tribute to the Per- 

 sians " of one thousand five hundred 

 horses, two thousand mules, and fifty 

 thousand sheep." 



The exact type of horse the ancients 

 possessed, and the height and size to 

 which such animals grew, we are un- 

 able exactly to determine. Researches 

 in the subject direct our attention to the 

 shoes excavated from Roman and other 

 tumuli, when the size of the shoe found 

 indirectly allows us to indicate the size 





