CYNEGETICA, I. 187-204 



an abundant hairy tail " ; the thighs * should be Avell 

 compact and muscular ; the rounded cannons " be- 

 neath should be straight <* and long and very thin,* 

 and the hmbs^ should be unfleshy, even as in the 

 horned -windsmft stag ; the pastern ^ should be slop- 

 ing ; the rounded hoof* should run high above the 

 ground, close-grained, horny, strong. Such would I 

 have the horse to be who goes to the fierce warfare 

 with Mild beasts, a spirited helper, warlike and strong. 

 Such are the Tuscan horses and the Armenian and 

 the Achaean and the famous Cappadocian horses 

 which dwell in front of Taurus.* A marvel have I 

 seen among the Cappadocian horses ; so long as 

 they have their foal teeth in their mouth and are 

 milk-fed, they are weakling, but as they grow older, 

 they become s\\ifter. Those are the horses which 

 thou shouldst array for manly war and against fierce 

 wild beasts ; for they are very brave to face arms 

 and break the serried phalanx and contend against 



•* Geop. I.e. ff/cAij 6p6d% Varr. I.e. cruribus rectis ; Colum. 

 I.e. altis rectisque cruribus. 



* i.e. not fleshy. Cf. Xen. Eq, 1. 5 run' KPiffidv to. oara. 

 iraxfa- XPV f'«'Qf . . . ov fievroi (p\e^i ye oi'Se aap^l vax^a ; 

 Poll. I.e. KfijfjLai aaapKoi. 



* It seems on the whole better to take the vague term 

 kQiKo. as continuing the description of the leg from knee to 

 fetloc'k (as in 408) than to refer it to the "gaskins." 



' Xen. Eq. 1. 4 Sei rd dvicrepdi fiiv tQiv ottXCjv KaTorrepw Si 

 T&r KvvrjiroSoiv (fetlock) otrra fxrp-e &yav 6p0a etvai wairep alyds 

 , .. . ov8i fiTiv A^oj' ravetyd. 



* Xen. Eq. 1. 3 ovde tovto del \avBdveiv, irimpov at oirXat 

 eUnv v\l/r)\al rj rairuvai ... at fiiv yap v^pTfKai iroppu diro tov 

 dar^dov ixovai ti]v xf^i-Sova (the *' frog ") KaXovfj.evrjv . . . Kal 

 Ttfi \p6<fnfi Se iprjffi Xifj.tj}V drj^ovs etvai toiis eviroSas, KaXQs \^yo)u- 

 wa-inp yap Kvfi^aXoi' ^o<pei rpos rep da-rredif i] KoiXij oxX-^. Cf. 

 Poll. I.e. 



* Mountain range in Asia Minor. 



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