NOTES. 1 3 1 



of oil. Hence Pollux (i, 201) advises rubbing the 

 horse's bars with the fingers to make them fine, 

 and washing the mouth and lips with warm water 

 and anointing them with oil. 



25. (Page 31.) The muzzle was of thin bronze, 

 perforated like a sieve, or of bronze wire or wicker. 

 See cut, p. 34. 



26. (Page 31.) It was the custom among the 

 Greeks and Romans to give the horse a roll in 

 fine sand after he had exercised. So Pheidippides 

 in the "Clouds" of Aristophanes (32), after a 

 dream of horse-racing, calls out in his sleep to 

 his slave to give the horse a roll and take him 

 home. And Isomachus in Xenophon's " Oecono 

 micus" (11, 18) has his slave do the same thing 

 after his morning's ride. This Isomachus was a 

 fine type of the Athenian of the best period, — 

 pure-minded, honourable, and upright. He was a 

 lover of the country and a fearless rider ; and the 

 following account which he gives Socrates of the 

 way in which he was wont to spend his mornings 

 makes a delightful picture. The translation here 

 given was made by Gentien Plervet in 1532, I 

 copy from the edition of 1537 (Thomas Berthelet, 

 printer, London). 



*' I ryse in the mornynge out of my bed so 

 yerly, that if I wold speke with any ma, I shall 

 be sure to fynde him yet within. And if I haue 



