120 XENOPHON ON HORSEMANSHIP. 



being older, and is probably not so old. It is 

 likely that it was written at the beginning of the 

 fourth century. Xenophon, in speaking of Simon, 

 scarcely uses the tone which would have been 

 proper in speaking of a very ancient writer. 

 Besides the long fragment a few short ones are 

 preserved in Pollux. According to Pliny (Nat. 

 Hist. 34, 76), a statue of Simon dressed as a 

 knight was made by Demetrius (who flourished 

 probably in the latter half of the fifth century) ; 

 but this may be only a mistaken allusion to the 

 statue of the horse mentioned by Xenophon. It 

 is supposed by Ernst Curtius (Die Stadtgeschichte 

 von Athen, p. 188), who calls Simon a contem- 

 porary of Pericles, that this statue was intended 

 to embody a perfect representation of the ideal 

 horse, just as the famous work by Polycleitus illus- 

 trated the proportions of the ideal man ; but this 

 is of course a mere theory, unsupported by Hterary 

 evidence. 



2. (Page 13.) The Eleusinion, in Athens, was 

 a precinct of Demeter, Kore, and Triptolemus, 

 with two temples ; it often served as the goal of 

 processions, especially cavalry displays. 



3. (Page 14.) This excellent advice stamps Xen- 

 ophon at once as a true horseman. Horace, 

 though he was no rider, knew the doctrine too; 

 witness Sat. i, 2, 86 : — 



