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capitally punifhed by Antony the triumvir. Dola- 

 bella then fell in love with the horfe, and bought 

 it for a large fum, but was (lain in civil war in 

 Syria. Caflius was its next owner, and he, on the 

 rout of his party, put an end to himfelf. Antony 

 then became pofTefTed of it, and his miferable end 

 it is needlefs to mention. Hence, fays Aulus 

 Gellius, arofe a proverb of men noted for their 

 misfortunes " He owns a Seian horfe." 1 Moralifts 

 might apply this ftory to the ruin which fo often 

 overtakes men in modern times who devote them- 

 felves to racing, more efpecially as the horfe of 

 Seius is defcribed as having been of a dark colour ; 

 and in the perfon of Pheidippides, the horfe-lover 

 portrayed in the beginning of the " Clouds " of 

 Ariftophanes, might defcry the type of many a 

 " hoHey" man of our own times. If horfes were 

 facred to Neptune, none might ever be brought 

 near a temple or grove facred to Diana, becaufe 

 horfes had caufed the death of her favourite, Hip- 

 poly tus. 2 



In our own land the horfe is found on a coin 

 of Verulamium, the capital of Caflivelaunus. In- 

 deed, it has been noticed that the horfe was a 

 favourite animal with the Kelts, and that both on 

 the famous White Horfe of the Berkfhire Downs 

 and on coins the animal is reprefented with the 

 wrong leg foremoft in an impoflible attitude. It 

 was the enfign alfo of the Saxons ; but with them 

 the leg is always corredlly drawn (see Blackwood's 

 Magazine, September, 1883, p. 321). A curious 

 1 Aul. Cell., iii. 9. 2 " JEn.," vii. 778. 



