Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-01-15
THE HORSE
BY JOSEPH BATTELL
From Advance Sheets.
Copyright Secured.
Continued fr0M last 70eek.
EARLY HISTORY
CONTINUED

ed more proper parade the pride and graceful
ness carriage, than wifness, great fatigue
ITO Mycen9 add Epirus, country much eXoed for
its breed OF fleet and beautiful horses
The Lacedemonans are by being
their and knowledge horses and for having
distinguished breed expressly destined contend in the Olympic
"Argois country Peoponneus another part which
be remembered this The horses Argos
extoled by all antiquity.
Acada justly boosted her breed horses and had large and
rich pastures their nouishment.
NTagnesia region of Macedonia bordering upon Thes
sally commended for its horses which its inhabitants
fought upon them with address, Lucan and
Orphan make mention of them
had likewise their share OF praise Those
O Ionia are celebrated by Orphan and Caudan
The island Scyros produced these animals abundance
furnished Greece with large suppes she less indebted
Coophon whose horses She highly esteemed and which
markedly excellent in
without their merit; and Els
emnent distinguished for the horses which she produced
admired in the Olympic
The Thraoan horses commended well many others
whose character and considerable
enough % entile any particular notice.
at is very we'll known that Romans indebted
many and useful improvements of life
Among these Workmanship perhaps the least considerable
adopted by the Romans with such eagce
cultivated with such diligence and zeal that they able
to excel their
Romulus very early his c7Yts, horse
Sparta purpose
age the practice riding and his subjects keep
expense which, in those times costly
rich equal the charge maintaining them
The Cya1uiua EqucSia horse and chariot OF the
began very early formed upon the model
Olympic like them they deemed sacred sports
performed acts OF religion and dedicated to particular dees Of
whose attributes they mystical Representations And here it
be acknowledged that although the Romans did char
battle is certain that in the circus they preferred them
the performed by single horses.
That horse was by Sngularis Single
upon which rode whouta saddle using only cloth like the
Greeks fastened with surcngc else sitting the bare back
The Euuran, breed praised by Orphan VIOLA
says they good and celebrates those the
Sardinia Corsica which active and bold but apt
be unquiet and impatient The Venetian territory produced
noble much admired breed Stabo says that Dionysus
of Sicily established stud in them whence he drew his
plies the public games, that the this stud very
great, and supported itself for a long time.
"Agagus Sicily otherwise called Agrigentum, is
highly xtoed by Pndar Slus Itaus horses and ST.
ely always famous upon this
Cape another place whose horses priced by the Ro-
1t hill in the ahest part Spain by the streghts OF
Gibraltar against Abya the Barbay side Under this hill
city called Iartessu the present city
Cadiz which much commended for its of horses Aua
Gaca and Andausa then called BGtca known produce
the their kind The Astrian and Gaacan horses de-
scrbed by Pny have been mddng size (ke the present
ennc and remarkable Tor the oPenness OF their PAGES their pr
limb and the time and eXactnc with which they dealt their
and regulated their motion it their steps
Caudan also celebrates this country for breeding numbers OF fine
and beautiful horses.
OF past times celebrate the merit OF the Spanish horses and modern
seconded them all their concentrations Vcgcu
them equally value to the CappadOan
that the African mixed with the Spanish blood produces
and fleet horses and the he for the saddle According t
Sabo they excel all others in speed and nmbcncss Oppar
says that they hcter than the Iahans and comparing
them this respect hawks and eagles m that they nigh
vie with the winds in svfnes Justin guarded with the obriet
and discretion of historian beoWs upon them equal
pcor Communications and says that they and Luanan Pou
gal horses endowed with such sWness that they might justly
be said to be born the winds in this naturally and properly
explaining the fiction the poets and abu who reported that the
of this conceive by the south wind with
the assistance of horse In short the character given
these horses by various stands justified by the unanmou
antiquity distinguishes them their beauty
speed courage generosity degree,