Natural Hijiory of the Ancients. 1 2 1 



and Epirus were noted among the Greeks for good 

 horfes. Hence the allufions, " aptum Argos equis " 

 (Horace's " Odes," i. 7, 9) ; " domitrix Epidaurus 

 equarum " (" Georg.," iii. 44) ; " Eliadum palmas 

 Epirus equarum" ("Georg.," i. 59). Wonderful 

 ftories are told by the ancients of Bucephalus, the 

 horfe of Alexander the Great how he would 

 allow no one elfe to mount him when harneffed 

 for war, and when he received his death-ftroke 

 in a fkirmim in the Indian War, he bore his mafter 

 fafely out of the battle, and then, and not till 

 then, expired, and the like. 1 A few more notices 

 of famous mythical horfes may be fubjoined, fuch 

 as the brazen-footed, fire-fnorting horfes of ^Eetes, 

 which it was needful that he who would bear off 

 the Golden Fleece mould yoke to a plough, and 

 compel to work. Pegafus need only be named. 

 Caftor and Pollux had a celebrated horfe called 

 Cyllarus. On a coin of Rhegium they are both 

 reprefented mounted on him, much like the Knights 

 Templars of later times. The chariot-horfes of 

 Glaucus were a caufe of fhuddering to the ancients, 

 as they had gone mad, and torn their mafter limb 

 from limb. 2 Cn. Seius pofTerTed a horfe of remark- 

 able beauty, faid to have fprung from the fteeds of 

 Diomedes, whom Hercules had {lain and brought 

 his horfes from Thrace to Argos, far furpafling 

 all other horfes in good qualities. Unluckily 

 fate had decreed that everyone who mould own 

 it, together with all his houfe, family, and fortune, 

 would be irretrievably ruined. Seius himfelf was 

 1 Aul. Cell., v. 2 ; Pliny, viii. 42. 2 " Georg.," iii. 267. 



