THE GREEK RIDING-HORSE. 9 1 



good horse, one should compare the first 

 chapter of Xenophon's treatise with the best 

 animals on the Parthenon. Some assistance 

 may be had from the brief summary of the 

 defects of a horse as given by Pollux* (1,191). 

 These are as follows : — 



** Horn thin, hoofs full, fat, soft, flat, or, as 

 Xenophon calls them, low-lying. Heavy 

 fetlocks, varicose veins in the shanks, flabby' 

 thighs, hollow shoulder-blades, projecting 

 neck, mane bald, narrow chest, head fat and 

 heavy, large ears, nostrils converging, sunken 

 eyes, thin meagre sides, sharp backbone, 

 rough haunches, thin buttocks, stiff legs, 

 knees hard to bend." 



There is one point, however, which seems 

 to call for special notice, and that is the 

 mane. As I have already said, Schlieben 

 has fallen into the common error of believing 

 that the writers require the mane to be long, 

 but that in works of art it is nearly always 

 cut short. But a careful reading of the 

 authors will show that the word " long " is 

 never applied to the mane by any of them. 

 The adjectives are "thick," ''full," " fine- 

 * See note 76. 



