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troness of horses, and Apuleius * mentions a pier for supporting 
beams, upon which pier was placed an image of the goddess 
Epona. At the inn at Pompeii every horse had a separate stable ; 
but Varro mentions a division by bars, called longurii, between the 
mangers ( presepia )• i he hay, which was particularly directed to 
be dry, was placed in a loft (tabulatum), and the other general 
food was barleyf. 
The litter and dung were removed every day; for, no shoes 
being used, it was thought that standing in warm moist matters 
would impede the induration of the hoofs. “Ne sternis comberat 
angulas cavendum.” Palladius recommends strong oaken planks 
with straw to be placed, that it might be soft to the horses when 
lying down, and hard to them when standing. 
According to Juvenal, figures of gods were painted upon the 
mangers ; and in imperial stables was annexed a portico painted 
with subjects relating to the public exhibitions. 
Lardner’s Cabinet Cyclopedia, No. 47, Arts and 
Manufactures of the Greeks and Ro mans 
Legend of the Schlagen Baa, or Serpent’s Bath 
in the Duchy of Nassau. 
Once upon a time there was a heifer with which every thing 
in nature seemed to disagree ; the more she ate the thinner she 
grew; the more her mother licked her hide, the thinner and 
more staring was her coat:—not a fly in the forest would bite 
her;—never was she seen to chew the cud; but hidebound and 
melancholy, her hips seemed to be actually protruding through 
her skin. What was the matter with her no one knew. What 
could cure her, no one could divine. In short, deserted by her 
master and species, she was, as the faculty would term it, 
“ given up.” 
In a few weeks, however, she suddenly reappeared among the 
herd, with ribs covered with flesh, eyes like a deer, skin sleek as 
a mole’s, breath smelling sweetly of milk, and saliva hanging in 
ringlets from her jaw ! Every day seemed to confirm her health ; 
and the phenomenon was so striking, that the herdsman, having 
watched her, discovered that regularly evening she wormed her 
way in secret into the forest, until she reached and refreshed 
herself at a spring of water haunted by harmless serpents, when 
full grown, about four feet in length. 
The circumstance, it seems, had been almost forgotten by the 
peasant, when a young Nassau lady began to shew exactly the 
* Met. liii, 66 ed. Rip. 
f Varro, A pul. kc . 
