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semi-trustworthy records the true origin of the 

 well-known saying : " He has Seius' horse in his 

 stable." So far as one can ascertain, it is trace- 

 able to the fates of the various ill-starred owners 

 of the horses of Gnaeus Seius, from Seius down to 

 Anthony. Plutarch says that the famous Philip 

 II. loved to commemorate his Olympian victories 

 by stamping the figure of a steed upon some of 

 his coins, and certainly he was devoted both to 

 horses and horse racing. We read too that 

 between 359 and 336 B.C. he entered both chariots 

 and riding horses for the Olympian competi- 

 tions. 



Similarly a proportion of the Sicilian coinage 

 bore the impression of a horse, and many of the 

 great chariot races are commemorated on coins. 

 Several of the Agrigentine coins, for instance, 

 show a quadriga driven by winged Nike, in com- 

 memoration probably of the victory of Exaenetus, 

 while some of the coinage of Syracuse dating 

 back so far as 500 B.C., and even earlier, repre- 

 sents a four-horse chariot upon the face of the 

 tetradrachms, and, on the didrachms, a man 

 riding one horse and leading another. Some of 

 the drachms show merely a man mounted. 



Indeed we are told that Gela not only prided 

 herself on her victories won on the race track, 

 but upon what was, of course, of more im- 

 portance — her splendid cavalry. A number of 

 her coins represent a four-horse chariot, some 



