88 XENOPHON ON HORSEMANSHIP. 



Simon) ; gaskins (not fleshy, Simon) ; veins 

 (visible all over the body, Varro) ; coronet, 

 (moderate, Pelagonius). On the other hand, 

 the other writers never disagree with Xeno- 

 phon in the points which they do mention. 

 The only approach to such disagreement 

 is the long barrel apparently required by 

 both Simon and by Palladius ; but Xeno- 

 phon was speaking only of riding-horses, 

 while there is nothing to show that these 

 writers had not also in mind horses for driv- 

 ing. It is true that we find some additions 

 to Xenophon's descriptions of certain points; 

 but these are only additions and not contra- 

 dictions, and he would doubtless have agreed 

 with most of them. Such, for instance, are 

 the muscles bulging out all over the chest 

 (Vergil, Columella, Apsyrtus, Palladius), the 

 jaw brought close to the neck (Simon, 

 Oppian), the straight cannons (Columella, 

 Oppian). It appears, then, that there is a 

 very close agreement among the different 

 writers; further, the resemblance in their 

 language and the order in which they take 

 up the various points show that they were 

 frequently copying from one another or from 



