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CHAPTER I I 



The value of the Horse as a living Machine depends to a great 

 extent upon his Feet. The care taken of them by Ancient 

 People. Xenophon and his Advice. The necessity for Sound 

 Feet. History of the Art of Shoeing. The Hoof in a Natural 

 State. Etfects of Domestication and CUmate. The Persians, 

 Ethiopians, Abyssinians, Tartars, Mongols, and other Nations. 

 The Greeks. Difficulty in tracing the Origin of Shoeing. 

 Scriptural Times. Homer, and ' Brazen-Footed.' Tryphiodo- 

 rus. Bronze Shoes, and Shoeless Hoofs. Xenophon on the 

 Management of Horses' Feet. Aristotle. Polydore Vergil. 

 The Greek Marbles. Climate of Greece. Effects of March- 

 ing. Translators' and Commentators' Mistakes. Arrian and 

 Artemidorus. The Coin of Tarentum. 



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The Horse with the Romans. Their Cavalry. Pliny. Camel- 

 shoeing. Silence of Roman Hippiatrists in regard to Shoeing. 

 Cato, Varro, Horace, Virgil, Lucan, Claudianus, Fitz-Stephen. 

 Roman Roads, and Couriers. Columella, Julius Pollux. 

 Diocletian's Edict. Hoof Instruments. Apsyrtus, Palladius, 

 Vegetius, Renatus, Renatus Flavins. Polybius. Carbatinai and 

 Embattai. Soleae Ferreae. Catullus, ScaHger, Suetonius. Gold 

 and Silver Soleae. Extravagance of the Romans. Calignia, 

 Nero, Poppaea, and Commodus. Theomnestus. Solea Spartea, 

 and the Glante Ferreo. Hippopodes. Chariot-racing. 

 Opinions as to the existence of Shoeing vi'ith the Ancients. 

 Montfau9on, Winckelmann, Fabretti, Camerarius, Pancirolus, 

 Vossius, Pegge, Smith, Heusinger, Rich. Supposed negative 



