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say that it was hogged ; at least, that is the 

 answer which I have almost invariably re- 

 ceived on putting the question. There can 

 be, I think, no doubt that the hogged mane 

 was a fashion which existed in Greek anti- 

 quity, silent about it though the writers may 

 be; the difficulty is to discover whether it 

 always existed side by side with the flowing 

 mane, or whether it went out of fashion after 

 a certain period. Still harder would it be to 

 determine whether hogging was practised 

 only upon horses of a certain breed or size, 

 as it generally is with us, or upon horses in- 

 tended only for special purposes. Into these 

 questions I have not entered, but I believe 

 light might be cast upon them by a careful 

 study and comparison of works of art.77 A 

 mere glance through such a well-known book 

 as Baumeister's " Denkmaler des Klassischen 

 Altertums " shows a number of examples of 

 hogged manes. Omitting for the moment 

 the Parthenon marbles, striking instances will 

 be found as follows : the Oropus relief, p. 69 ; 

 Phigalia frieze, plate xliv; very ancient 

 terra cotta from Melos, p. 1290; Dipylon 

 vase, p. 1943; Mycene vase, p. 1941 ; black- 



