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tion is vety accurate ; there is in it but one real 

 error, for Xenophon does not say that the page 

 leads the horse "trotting" home, but that he 

 "gives him a roll " and then leads him home. 



27. (Page 31.) Pollux (i, 185) mentions sev- 

 eral.' The a-n-dOq, which he describes as wooden 

 and shaped like a feather, was used for cleaning the 

 hair. The word really means "' any broad blade ; " 

 and this implement is doubtless to be recognized 

 on an Assyrian relief from Nimroud, representing 

 the stable of Assurnazirpal. Other implements 

 were the ifz-qKrpa, for combing out, of iron with 

 teeth like a saw, corresponding to our curry-comb; 

 and the crojpaKt?, which seems to have been a sort 

 of mitten of purple cloth, used by the groom in 

 rubbing down and to give a gloss to the coat. 



28. (Page 32.) This prescription goes back to 

 Homer, II. 23, 280, "a charioteer . . . who on 

 their manes full often poured smooth oil, when he 

 had washed them with water." The Scholiast on 

 these Hues says : " This is why Xenophon recom- 

 mends the washing of the head and forelock with 

 water; " and he adds the irrelevant but interesting 

 information that about a sixth of a pint of oil was 

 enough to supple a man's whole body. 



29. (Page 32.) Upon this passage Berenger 

 (The History and Art of Horsemanship, by 



