CYNEGETICA, I. 170-178 



Cretan, Mazician," Achaean, Cappadocian,** Moorish,*^ 

 Scythian,** Magnesian,* Epeian/ Ionian, Armenian," 

 Libyans'* Thracian,* Erembian.^ As the best horse of 

 all men skilled in horse-racing and overseers of herds 

 have remarked the horse whose whole body is 

 crowned \\ith these features. *■' He should have a 

 small head ' rising high above his neck, himself being 

 big "* and round of hmb ; the head should be high, 

 the nether jaw cur\ing toward the neck ; the brow *» 



(Ridg. p. 193). Armenian mounted archers, Arr. Tact. 

 44. 1. 



* See C. iv. 50 n; Arr. C. 1. 4, 2\. If.; Ael. .V.^. iii. 

 2 ; Ridg. 238 ff., 470 fF. The horses of CvTene were specially 

 famous, Strabo 837 tirxorp3<^os iarlv apio-rr] (sc. Kvpi^vr]) ; 

 Pind. P. iv. 2 (vItttov K. ; F, be. 4 oiw^iirwov K. 



* Schol. Theocr. xiv. 47 Xvtoi Qpr)LKioi \aKfdaifi6i'ia.i re ywat- 

 K€S. Cf. Horn. //. X. 545 ff. ; Verg. Aen. v. 565 S. ; Ridg. p. 108. 



* Tovs (K Trfs Tpctr/\o5i''ri5oT. Eutecn. Cf. Horn. Od. iv. 84 

 where Schol. and Eustath. say Aristarchus identified them 

 with the Arabians. Strabo 41 ; Dionys. Per. 180, 963. 



' Cf. in general Xen. Eq. 1 ; Poll. i. 189 f.; Geopon. xvi. 

 1 ; Verg. G. iii. 72 ff. ; Varro, R.R. ii. 7 ; Columell. vi. 29 ; 

 Nemes. 240 ff.; Pallad. iv. 13; U. H. Hayes, Points of the 

 Hone (London 1904); Goubaux and Barrier, The Exterim- 

 of the Horse (1892). 



' Xen. Eq. 1. 8 ^ 5e Ke<f>a\y) dariidr]^ odcra fxiKpav <nay6va ?xoi ; 

 Poll. i. 189 K€<f)a\y] dffTudTji, rporofxrj ^paxeia (opposed to 

 Kf(pa\T)v ^apetav aapKwSt) ih. 191); Geop. xvi. 1. 9 Tr}v K((pa\rjv 

 IX" fUKpay ; Verg, G. iii. 79 llli ardua cervix argutumque 

 caput ; Hor. ^'. i. 2. 89 breve quod caput, ardua cervix ; 

 Varro, R.R. ii. 7. 5 si caput habet non magnum ; Colum. vi. 

 29 Corporis vero forma constabit exiguo capite ; Pallad. iv. 

 13 exiguum caput et siccum. Cf. Hayes p. 193, " When the 

 head is lai^e and * fleshy ' we may generally assume that 

 the animal is ' soft ' and wanting in ' blood.' " 



"• Geop. I.e. Ty xepioxv ''^oP (nhfiaroi fiiyav, evTrayyj iraffi toU 



/J.^p€<Tl. 



" "Good width between the eyes is generally regarded 

 as a sign of intelligence and of a generous disposition " 

 (Hayes, p. 196). 



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