1 64 XENOPHON ON HORSEMANSHIP. 



and the leading-rein are distinguished, the thick 

 dark streak representing the latter. The horses, 

 Korte thinks, are not represented in a natural 

 gait (see p. 141) j yet perhaps not much evidence 

 on this point can be got from a representation 

 of horses moving at a walk (see p. 163). Each 

 man carries two javelins (see p. 162). The horses 

 have long tails, long forelocks (see p. 32), and 

 hogged manes (see p. 93). Behind the first 

 horse stands a young man (also under a tree), 

 with a peculiar staff having a crook at the upper 

 end. This man may be the hipparch or the 

 phylarch (see p. 75) of the troop undergoing 

 examination, for we know that young men were 

 chosen to these offices. Finally, behind the 

 third horse stands a bearded man with a staff of 

 office. The two upright bearded men are doubt- 

 less the examining committee of the Senate ; the 

 seated man is their secretary. The first knight is 

 actually in course of examination, as his upright 

 and attentive position shows ; the second is on his 

 way, the third just starting. The newly discovered 

 treatise of Aristotle on the Athenian Constitution 

 gives us some interesting and in part new informa- 

 tion about this examination (chap. 49). In the 

 centre of the bottom of the cup is one of the two 

 hundred mounted bowmen, called the Scythians, 

 employed by the Athenians as a sort of police 

 force. 



