THE GREEK RIDING-HORSE. 8/ 



gonius, and Palladius.''^ There are of course 

 countless allusions to the points of the horse 

 in numerous other authors, but I have here 

 named all the extant writers who have de- 

 scribed with any exactness and completeness 

 the best type of the animal ; and in another 

 part of this book (p. 107) will be found 

 translations which I have made from them 

 all. 



These writers are scattered through a period 

 of nearly eight hundred years, but it is evi- 

 dent that they all had in mind an animal of 

 the same general stamp. Schlieben writes as 

 though the descriptions given by the several 

 writers really differed in essential particulars ; 

 but this is very far from being the case, and 

 his study of the passages cannot have been 

 exact. Xenophon's description is by all odds 

 the most complete; in his first chapter he 

 touches upon over thirty points, many more 

 than are mentioned by any other writer. A 

 careful examination of them all shows that 

 there are only five points mentioned by 

 others but omitted by him ; namely, shoulder- 

 blades (large, Simon and Apsyrtus; broad, 

 Varro; strong, Nemesian) ; teeth (small. 



