156 XENOPHON ON HORSEMANSHIP. 



75. (Page 85.) Aelian, H. A. 4, 50; Pollux, 

 2, 69. 



76. (Page 87.) The description by Vegetius 

 (fifth century) in the " Mulomedicina," 4, 6 (6, 6) 

 is of a particular breed, and that not a Greek one. 

 Isidorus, Origines, 12, i, 45 (seventh century), 

 and Pollux, i, 188 ff. (second century) are mere 

 compilers, adding nothing in this matter to the 

 knowledge which we have from other sources. 



77. (Page 93.) Light may come from another 

 direction. We find now and then that the manes 

 of horses were shorn as a sign of mourning. This 

 was done by Persians on the death of Mardonius 

 (Hdt. 9, 24), and by Greeks on the deaths of 

 Pelopidas and Hephaestion (Plutarch, Pelopidas, 

 33 ; Alexander, 72). In the Alcestis of Euripides, 

 428 ff., the bereaved husband orders all his subjects 

 to shear the manes of their horses. 



78. (Page 94.) Not a Homeric fashion, however, 

 (see e.g. Iliad, 17, 439). It was intermediate 

 between the Heroic and the Classical Age. 



79. (Page 98.) See Pliny, N. H. 8, 156 f. 



80. (Page 99.) The horse Xanthus and his mate 

 wept for the death of Patroclus ; but their grief 

 was not appreciated by the charioteer Automedon 

 (Iliad, 17, 426 ff.). 



