NOTES. 155 



the only passage in which heroes are actually 

 described as riding on horseback (Iliad, 10, 513) ; 

 but this is in the Dolopeia, universally admitted 

 to be the latest part of the Iliad in order of 

 composition. It cannot, therefore, be accepted 

 as evidence in the face of the general practice of 

 driving, found everywhere else in heroic scenes. 



As my book is concerned only with the later 

 practice of riding, there is no need to discuss the 

 very obscure question of the introduction of the 

 horse into Greece, shadowed forth as it may or 

 may not have been by the myths of Pegasus, the 

 Centaurs, Erechtheus, and Poseidon. According 

 to Pietr^ment (whom I quote at second-hand, 

 having never seen his book, as I remarked in my 

 preface), no fossil remains of horses have been 

 found in Greece ; and the animal was certainly 

 introduced thither, though the route is unknown. 



72. (Page 76.) The price of the horse branded 

 with the letter Koppa, in Aristophanes' "Clouds," 

 20. The exact significance of this and other 

 brands is unknown, save that horses thus branded 

 were of more than ordinary value. See cut on 

 p. 184, and its description. 



73. (Page 84.) See Pliny, N. H. 35, 95 ; Aelian, 

 V. H. 2, 3. 



74. (Page 85.) 'Pseudo-Lucian, Dem. Encom., 

 24; Aelian, V. H. 14, 15. 



