64 XENOPIION ON HORSEMANSHIP. 



could there be at all brilliant in such a 

 sight as this? But if you rouse your horse 

 and take the lead at a gait neither too fast 

 nor too slow, but simply suited to the horses 

 that are most spirited, alert, and graceful in 

 action, with such leading the general effect is 

 complete, and the horses prance and snort all 

 together, so that not only you yourself but 

 all that follow after would be a sight well 

 worth seeing.5^ 



To conclude, if a man buys his horses 

 skilfully, feeds them so that they can bear 

 fatigue, and handles them properly in training 

 them for war, in exercising them for the 

 parade and in actual service in the field, what 

 is there to prevent him from making his 

 horses more valuable than when he acquired 

 them, and hence from owning horses that are 

 famous and from becoming famous himself 

 in the art of horsemanship? Nothing except 

 the interposition of some divinity. 



