THE GREEK RIDING-HORSE. /I 



estate at Scillus in Elis, about 387 B. c. ; and 

 there he lived for more than fifteen years, 

 with his wife Philesia and their sons Gryllus 

 and Diodorus. In this retirement were pro- 

 duced several of his well-known works. 

 After the battle of Leuctra, in 371, he was 

 driven out of Scillus and went to Corinth. 

 Some tell us that the Athenians recalled him 

 from exile, and that his last years were spent 

 in his native city ; others say that he died in 

 Corinth. It is certain that his sons, at least, 

 were in the service of Athens in the cam- 

 paign which closed with Mantinea in 362. 

 Not long before this battle he wrote '' The 

 General of Horse," as we know from allusions 

 in it to the approaching hostilities. This 

 book, in turn, is referred to in the treatise 

 on Horsemanship, which must have shortly 

 followed ; and one likes to believe that both 

 were designed by the old soldier to serve for 

 the guidance of his sons. The labor of love, 

 if such it was, failed not of reward. The sons 

 were worthy of their father, and for their 

 courage and manly beauty won the title of 

 the Dioscuri, the '' Great Twin Brethren." 

 The elder, Gryllus, crowned his life by falling 



