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by Xenophon at the end of his seventh chapter 

 was in or out of doors. I have translated it 

 riding-ground. In a different work (Memorabiha, 

 iii, 3, 6), Xenophon calls the place a^/xos (the 

 Latin hareiia), showing that horses were exercised 

 upon sand, not hard ground. The object hanging 

 at the left of our picture is an oil-flask, perhaps 

 the aryballos (see below), used in the baths and 

 wrestling-schools. The inscription has nothing to 

 do with the actual scene, but is an example of the 

 custom whereby the ancient vase-painter dedi- 

 cated, as it were, his work to some friend ; to the 

 name was generally attached the adjective koX6% 

 (handsome), as here. On the attachment of the 

 horse's bit, see p. 146. 



Page 22. A proto-Corinthian lecythos, of the 

 shape sometimes called the aryballos, perhaps of 

 the early sixth century. Athletes used such vases 

 to hold their oil (see above). From " Die 

 Griechischen Vasen," Lau, taf. iv, 2. The small 

 size of the rider, compared to his horse, is note- 

 worthy (see p. 95) ; observ^e also the thick, long 

 mane (p. 94). 



Page 23. From a vase found at Nola, in 

 Campania ; reproduced from Panof ka's " Bilder 

 Antiker Lebens," i, 5. A riding-master (see 

 p. 168) is helping a boy to mount. In Plato, 

 Laches, 182 a., riding is mentioned along with 

 gymnastics as proper parts of the education of the 



