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adhere for the next ten days. Then begin to give 

 him moderate exercise, and rub him well with oil 

 after he has sweated. If it is frosty a fire should be 

 15 put in the stable. As horses are suitable for various 

 purposes — some for military service, some for 

 carrying, some for breeding (as stallions), some 

 for riding or driving — they cannot all be viewed 

 in the same light, or kept in the same way. Thus 

 the soldier chooses, rears, and trains one kind 

 of horse, the charioteer and circus-rider another, 

 nor does the man who wants to turn out horses for 

 carrying,^ that is, riding or driving^ horses, pro- 

 ceed in the same way as he who wants them for 

 military service; for just as we need them high- 

 spirited for camps, so we prefer to have them quiet 



* V'ectorios. I have translated Keil's text, though it does 

 not sound right to me. For (i) vectura means "transport, 

 carrying oi goods, ^^ and vecturam facere means "to be a 

 carrier," and so (2) I cannot think that vectorios is defined by 

 equos cui ephippium aut ad raedam {factos). I would propose 

 to read neque idem qui vectorios facere vult aut ad ephippium, 

 etc., and would translate: " Nor does he who means to train 

 horses for carrying (pack-horses) or for the saddle or for 

 driving," etc. AtU followed by ad might easily have dropped 

 out of the text. 



^ Ad raedam. The raeda or reda was a four-wheeled travel- 

 ling carriage big enough to hold a man and his family (if 

 moderate) and luggage. Cicero, writing to Varro, says : Quod 

 si heri tuam redam non hahuissem varices haberem, and (Ad 

 Att, v, 17, beginning) he dictates a letter to Atticus sitting in 

 a reda when he was starting on a two-days journey : Hanc 

 epistolam dictavi sedens in reda cum in castra proficiscerer a 

 quibus aberam bidui. 



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