236 ATHENS. 
CHAP, that, as a sculptor, he particularly excelled in 
j T ' _. his statues of horses : perhaps some notion may 
be conceived of the magic of his art, when it is 
related, that of a hundred horses introduced by 
him into the Panathenaic pomp, there are not 
two, either in the same attitude, or which are 
not characterized by a marked difference of 
expression. Some circumstances were made 
known to us by our being able to examine the 
marble closely, which we did not know before ; 
although they had been alluded to by Stuart ' : 
the bridles of the horses were originally of 
gilded bronze; this we perceived by the holes 
left in the stone for affixing the metal, and also 
by little bits of the bronze itself, which the Forma- 
Of the tori had found in the work. We should hardly 
Coikumus; 
have believed that such an article of dress as 
the leathern boot, with its top turned over the 
calf of the leg, was worn by the antient Athe- 
nian, as well as by English cavaliers, if we had 
not seen the Cothurnus so represented upon 
the figures of some of the young horsemen in 
this procession; and as coxcomically adapted 
to the shape of the leg, and set off with as great 
nicety, as for a Newmarket jockey. Another 
singular piece of foppery, worn also by the 
(1) Antiq. of Athens, vol. II. p. 14. Land. 1787. 
