Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . renders this passage from the Greekas follows: Apsyrtus iis aui compedibus aut vinculis collisiviTiANTUR. Usu veiiit ut sutfragiues, quas »iesoci/riia vocant, tricis, pedi-cis, viuculisque quibusdam loro vel fune districtis pleruuque lacessantur,quibus corium procidit, sic ut nervuli hujusce partis aperiaiitur, ac nudipateant: id quod vitae discrimen adfert, praesertim si in utroque flexuarticulorum evenerit, etc. ROMAN HIPPOPODES. 75 This passage, and the term hippopocles, here used forthe first and only time in the anc
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . renders this passage from the Greekas follows: Apsyrtus iis aui compedibus aut vinculis collisiviTiANTUR. Usu veiiit ut sutfragiues, quas »iesoci/riia vocant, tricis, pedi-cis, viuculisque quibusdam loro vel fune districtis pleruuque lacessantur,quibus corium procidit, sic ut nervuli hujusce partis aperiaiitur, ac nudipateant: id quod vitae discrimen adfert, praesertim si in utroque flexuarticulorum evenerit, etc. ROMAN HIPPOPODES. 75 This passage, and the term hippopocles, here used forthe first and only time in the ancient veterinary writers,obv^iously refers to the sandal or solea worn by horses ormules on rare occasions, and to the way in which it wasmaintained on the extremities by the corrigice, or ratherthe Jciscioice, mentioned by Vegetius. That this was reallythe case, a very fine terra-cotta or baked clay (the kindnamed typi by Pliny), now in the British Museum (2ndvase Room, and marked T 337), has been brought forwardby Bracy Clark as a proof (fig. 3). The example is cer-. %• 3 tainly, so far as I can ascertain, unique; but takenin connection with what the ancient authors have said inregard to this matter, it would appear to afford conclusiveevidence. The age of the tablet is, unfortunately, un-known ; but it belongs to a number which were foundabout the year 1765, in a dry well, near the Porta Latina, 76 HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. at Rome ; and which were sometime afterwards added toMr Townleys collection. The bas-relief exhibits achariot-race, having something of the Greek character indesign. The charioteer, wearing a helmet and whatSuetonius calls the quadrigarian dress/ stands in a two-wheeled curriculus or car, drawn by four horses, which aregalloping towards the metce or pillars, round which thecompetitors were obliged to turn in these contests of thecircus. The upper part of his body appears to be swathedin his robe, and the reins, four in number, two in the leftand tw
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