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have found very useful. These are by 

 Courier, with notes and a translation into 

 French, first published in Paris in 1813, and 

 by Jacobs, with notes and a German version, 

 Gotha, 1825. Hermann's essay, **De verbis 

 quibus Graeci incessum equorum indicant," 

 is indispensable for the study of certain parts 

 of the treatise. I have also consulted the 

 German translation of Ginzrot, with brief 

 notes, in the second volume of his large 

 work called " Die Wagen und Fuhrwerke 

 der Griechen und Romer," Munich, 1817. 

 Ginzrot's book must be used with caution ; 

 the illustrations are often fanciful, and the 

 statements need verification ; but his transla- 

 tion of Xenophon is sometimes helpful. In 

 English I have seen three translations, — 

 Berenger's (in his *' History and Art of Horse- 

 manship," London, 1771, a somewhat rare 

 book, for the loan of which I am obliged to 

 the Librarian of the Boston Athenaeum) ; an 

 anonymous translation reprinted with the 

 minor works of Xenophon in Philadelphia in 

 1845; and Watson's, in Bohn's Classical 

 Library. The first is by far the best, but I 

 have not found either of the three of much 



