Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . lt;rEay[x£vov, and speaking of a kind of shoe for thatanimal: Orav s^slvo ovapiov fi, ^0(, yivsrai ^aT^ivapiaTou ovaploo, (r^ri[xarioL, uziTO^r^ixaTia, xpiSaij ^oprog. Sometranslators have rendered uzuo^ri^aria as ferreac calces;but Didot, in his new Collection of Classical Greek authors,translates it as sparte^ calces: Si asselus est corpus, ceterafreni erunt aselli, clitellae, sparteas calces, hordeum, foenum. , in his Interpretation of Dreams, about Antiquite Expliquee, vol. iv. p. 50. Ency. of Antiqu
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . lt;rEay[x£vov, and speaking of a kind of shoe for thatanimal: Orav s^slvo ovapiov fi, ^0(, yivsrai ^aT^ivapiaTou ovaploo, (r^ri[xarioL, uziTO^r^ixaTia, xpiSaij ^oprog. Sometranslators have rendered uzuo^ri^aria as ferreac calces;but Didot, in his new Collection of Classical Greek authors,translates it as sparte^ calces: Si asselus est corpus, ceterafreni erunt aselli, clitellae, sparteas calces, hordeum, foenum. , in his Interpretation of Dreams, about Antiquite Expliquee, vol. iv. p. 50. Ency. of Antiquities. London, Comnientar. in Epictetum, lib. iii. 36 HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. the same period as Arrian, also speaks of a horse shodwith a sock or shoe, uro-oSi^jaa, which was probably madeof spartea, like the above. I find on a silver coin of Tarentum/ now in theBritish Museum, and struck, it is surmised, about 300,a curious representation of a horse and two men, whichmight, at the first glance, be supposed to be connectedwith our subject (fig. i).. The horse is beautifully delineated, and admirablyrepresents the breed then famous in this part of MagnaGrascia. A groom or boy, nude as the horse attendantsare generally represented on ancient Greek vases andsculpture, is seated on the horses back, and strokes his Tarentnra, the modern Taranto, an ancient town of Italy, in thekingdom of Naples, is bnilt on a small island, in the Gulf of Taranto,near Brindisi. It was founded 700, as a Greek colony, by Lace-daemonian Parthenii, the descendants of a people noted for their love ofhorses and excellent horsemanship. This city was one of the mostflourishing and powerful of Magna Graecia, and was distinguished forits luxury and splendour, as well as for its encouragement of the finearts. For a long time it resisted the Romans, but at last submitted tothem, 272. The above drawing is twice the size of the coin. TARENTUM COIN. ^f mane as if to soothe him, while
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