POINTS OF THE HORSE. Ill 



VARRO. 



This extract is taken from the " Res Rusticae," 

 2, 7, 5. The book was written in 37 b. c, when the 

 author was eighty years of age. The translation is 

 made from the Latin text of Keil. 



What the horse is to be like can be guessed 

 from the colt, if it has a small head with well- 

 marked parts, black eyes, nostrils not narrow, 

 ears close to the head ; mane thick, dark, 

 rather crinkly, and of fine hair, folding over 

 to the right side of the neck ; broad, full 

 chest; large withers, moderate-sized belly, 

 flanks drawn in as you go down, broad 

 shoulder-blades, tail full and crinkly; shanks 

 stout, matching, shaped off somewhat towards 

 the inside ; knees round and not large, hoofs 

 hard. The veins should be visible all over 

 the body, convenient for treatment when he 

 is not well. 



VERGIL. 



From the " Georgics," 3, 79 ff., published about 

 29 B. c. Translated from the text of Ribbeck. 



Lofty is his neck and brisk-moving his 

 head ; short in the barrel is he, plump of 

 back, his undaunted breast swelling with 

 folds of muscle. The bays and grays are 



