. The history and art of horsemanship . J. OF HORSEMANSHIP. 59 only a cloth, like the Greeks, faftened with a furcingk^or elfe fitting upon the bare back. Occafionally too the riders were tied and bound totheir horfes by thefe girths, that they might fit withgreater firmnefs and fecurity •, but the pradlice wasimprudent and dangerous, as they were, by thismeans, expofed to be dragged, and torn by the horfe,in cafe they were unfeated, like the warriour defcribedby Silius Italicus *. ?Raphiirque pavcre Tragus equiy vinHis connexa ad cinguJa membris f. Lock-faddles, now but little ufed, are liabl
. The history and art of horsemanship . J. OF HORSEMANSHIP. 59 only a cloth, like the Greeks, faftened with a furcingk^or elfe fitting upon the bare back. Occafionally too the riders were tied and bound totheir horfes by thefe girths, that they might fit withgreater firmnefs and fecurity •, but the pradlice wasimprudent and dangerous, as they were, by thismeans, expofed to be dragged, and torn by the horfe,in cafe they were unfeated, like the warriour defcribedby Silius Italicus *. ?Raphiirque pavcre Tragus equiy vinHis connexa ad cinguJa membris f. Lock-faddles, now but little ufed, are liable to the fameobjeftion. Whenever an inferior perfon on borfeback met his fupe-rior, or a raagiftrate, or any one of diftinguifhed rankand charatfler, the form of paying his civilities, and tefl;i-fying refped, was by defcending from his horfe, unco-vering his head, and retiring on one fide of the ceremony, Seneca % fays, he always obfcrved, when-ever he met a conful or prastor; to whom thefe ho-nours were due. Apuleius menti
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