dd HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. 



loud shouts arose from every one, "Behold, Pertinax is 

 here ! " ' 



The allusion made by Pliny to the garniture of Pop- 

 paea's mules, Mr Pegge remarks, would seem to imply that 

 the solea was pulled on like an ordinary sock ; but, as 

 previously mentioned, Vossius doubts this : ' Verum qua 

 ratione absque clavis id fieri possit, non satis liquet ; ' and 

 then he makes the assertion before alluded to, to prove 

 that even the Greeks put on the hoof-armature with 

 nails : 'in vetusto exemplari Hippiatricorum Grascorum, 

 quod habeo, cui etiam picture accedunt, clavorum quibus 

 trajiciantur ungulae signa et vestigia manifeste apparent.' 

 And yet, Pegge maintains, the (rz^^a^ria en^rl-^pua-a men- 

 tioned above could not well be nailed, but must have been 

 drawn on and fastened in a different manner, perhaps by 

 being tied round the leg, like the snow-bags Xenophon 

 saw, and as urxroOTJixncra used for the soleag or shoes of 

 mules seems to imply. Scaliger,^ from attentive examin- 

 ation of all the passages referring to this subject, certainly 

 was of opinion that the shoes of horses and mules, what- 

 ever may have been their materials, were not fastened 



V' ' Ibid. Lib. Ixxxiii. ' Post haec equum eundem, quum ob senectu- 

 tem dimissus esset a cursu, et ruri ageret, Commodus arcessiverat, et 

 introduxerat in circum, inauratis imgidis, ac inaurata pelle in dorso 

 ornatum : qui ubi de improviso comparuit, rursum conclamatum est ab 

 omnibus, " Ecce Pertinax adest." ' 



Stephanus thinks that Poppaea's mule-shoes were merely the soleae 

 spartea gik, and he adds (though we must not forget the mistake he 

 previously makes) : * Equi bellatores apud Romanos non habebant 

 munimenta pedum sen soleas, sed sole jumenta, ut ostendit Fabrettas 



(Col. Traj.) Pertinacis tamen equi iraprift^yoTOQ ungulas 



inaurabat Commodus, tuq OTrXag j^araxpuffworaf. 



' Pitisc. ad Suet. Nero, cap. 30. 



