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beauty : her hair was collected together, and flung back- 
ward : the height of the pillar was not beyond the reach 
of a person whose hand was outstretched : the figure itself 
was unsupported ; and yet its right hand held with as much 
ease the statue of a Horse and its Rider as if it had been 
a goblet of wine ; one foot of the horse being placed in 
the palm of the hand. He who sat upon the horse was 
of a robust appearance, clad in mail, with greaves on his 
legs, and ready for battle ; the horse was erecting his ears 
to the sound of the trumpet ; his neck was lofty, his 
nostrils snorting, and his eyes displayed his desire for 
the course ; his feet were raised in air, and as if in the 
attitude of springing to the fight. Near to this statue, 
and close to the eastern goal of the Circus, which belonged 
to the Red faction^, were placed the figures of victorious 
CHARIOTEERS, as Icssous of their art : by their gesture, if 
not by their voice, they exhorted the drivers not to slacken 
the reins as they approached the pillar (called Nysse)' ; 
hut, reining in their steeds, to turn them in a narrow com- 
pass, and, lashing them to their full speed, compel the 
adverse charioteer to make a larger sweep, and thus to lose 
ground, even though his horses were swifter of foot, if he 
^vere less skilful in the management of them. — Another 
group of surprising and exquisite workmanship in Irass 
(1) Vide Gibbon, 40th chapter, who has described the different factions 
of the Circus, — the Green, the Red, the White, and the Blue. 
(2) For a particular description of the Chariot-race, we must look to 
the 25d Book of the Iliad, and read the instructions of Nestur to his 
son Aniilochus : nor should we omit the lively and glowing description 
of a chariot-iace, with its attendant accidents, in tlie Electra of Sophocles, 
ver. 700, 
