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was attached (p. 146). The pose of horse and 

 man being one of complete repose, it may be 

 thought that we have here an outpost, doing guard 

 duty, — perhaps in winter, as this might account for 

 the heavy cloak. A good list of vase-paintings of 

 men on horseback will be found in the article 

 from which I have taken the above description. 



Page 119. From Engelmann and Anderson's 

 '' Pictorial Atlas to Homer," plate xiv, 74. From 

 a Panathenaic vase (see p. 171) of the sixth cen- 

 tury B. c, found at Camirus in Rhodes. It is 

 better illustrated in Salzmann's '' Necropole de 

 Camiros," pi. 57, as black-figured on an orange 

 ground. The scene represents acrobats perform- 

 ing, and I take the following description from the 

 first book named above : " Two horses are in full 

 gallop in the ring, guided by a single rider, who 

 looks round at an acrobat, who, with the aid of a 

 spring-board, has leaped on the back of his horse, 

 and, with two shields, is performing a martial 

 dance, jumping from one to the other. He is 

 represented as very small on account of the lack 

 of space. Below, between the horses' legs, is 

 another figure (also made small and placed in this 

 strange position for want of space) who is busily 

 engaged in smoothing the sand of the ring with a 

 pick, just as the grooms do with a rake in the 

 modern circus. Behind the horses is a man play- 

 ing on a double flute in front of the spectators, 



