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does not here say, as usual in this book, " it is 

 well." Of course a practised rider would need 

 no such help as the mane to keep his hand quiet. 

 On the frieze of the Parthenon the rider who has 

 his right hand on his horse's head is merely sooth- 

 ing the excited animal (see cut facing p. 89) . 



47. (Page 48.) As Jacobs observes, the rule is 

 a good one, but the reason given for it (and 

 repeated by Pollux, i, 206) seems to be exactly 

 the reverse of the truth. The horse, as a rule, pre- 

 fers familiar places, and after constant riding over 

 one road it will be found very difficult to make 

 him go elsewhere. 



48. (Page 48.) For instance, on Xenophon's 

 estate in Scillus they hunted deer, wild boars, and 

 gazelles ; among other animals, hares, bears, and 

 wolves are frequently mentioned as hunted in 

 Greece. The hunt was one of the principal 

 amusements of both Greeks and Romans, as it 

 had been of earlier nations. Much information 

 on the subject will be found in Xenophon's 

 '• Cynegeticus," though the work treats chiefly of 

 dogs and hounds, and in the treatise of the same 

 name by Arrian. 



49. (Page 52.) The words in brackets are, as 

 Cobet pointed out, a stupid interpolation, adding 

 nothing to what has been said already. 



