6 THE HORSE IN HISTORY 



"Ha! Ha!" and then winded the battle afar off 

 and fretted itself unduly upon hearing "the 

 thunder of the captains and the shouting " has 

 been described by several writers, but no two de- 

 scriptions appear to tally. 



Solomon, according to the " Book of Kings, " 

 must have owned quite a large stud, for we read 

 that he had horses brought out of Egypt, and 

 that a chariot came up and went out for six 

 hundred shekels of silver, a horse for a hundred 

 and fifty, " and so for all the kings of the Hittites, 

 and for the kings of Syria, did he bring them 

 out. " The Hittites, whom Professor Jensen 

 assures us were Indo-Europeans, are also shown 

 to have had horses when they made their way 

 into Northern Palestine, probably at some period 

 prior to 1400 B.C., but trustworthy information 

 about the horses and how the Hittites treated 

 them is not obtainable. 



As for the horses in the Mycenean Period — 

 the Bronze Age of Greece — the monuments of 

 that epoch bear testimony to the esteem in 

 which they were held. The indigenous people 

 of Greece were presumably the Pelasgians, and 

 these monuments remain to bear testimony that 

 such a people once existed. 



In a like manner do the gravestones of the 

 Acropolis of Mycenae bear indisputable evidence, 

 for upon three of them at least are to be seen 

 sculptured in low relief a chariot, a pair of horses, 



