The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse . northern breedowing to their association with Toringos. 5 Ars Vet. iv. 6. 5: Hunniscis grande et aduncum caput, extantes oculi,angustae nares, latae maxillae, robusta cervix et rigida, iubae ultra genuapendentes, maiores costae, incurva spina, cauda silvosa, validissimae tibiae,parvae bases, plenae ac diffusae ungulae, ilia cavata, totumque corpus angu-losum, nulla in clunibus arvina, nulli iu musculis tori, in longitudine magis Ill] AND HISTORIC TIMES 319 The Huiigariau hath a great and hooked head, and hiseyes stand ahnost without his head
The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse . northern breedowing to their association with Toringos. 5 Ars Vet. iv. 6. 5: Hunniscis grande et aduncum caput, extantes oculi,angustae nares, latae maxillae, robusta cervix et rigida, iubae ultra genuapendentes, maiores costae, incurva spina, cauda silvosa, validissimae tibiae,parvae bases, plenae ac diffusae ungulae, ilia cavata, totumque corpus angu-losum, nulla in clunibus arvina, nulli iu musculis tori, in longitudine magis Ill] AND HISTORIC TIMES 319 The Huiigariau hath a great and hooked head, and hiseyes stand ahnost without his head, his nostrils are narrow,and his jaws broad, his neck is long and rough, with a manehanging down nearly to his knees, he hath a large bulk, a rightback, a long bush tail, his legs be strong, his pasterns small,and his hoofs full and broad, his guts are hollow, and all hisbody is full of empty corners, his buttocks are not filled withfat, neither do the brawns of his muscles appear, of staturehe is more in length than height, and therewith somewhat. Fig. 91. The Hungarian Horse. side-bellied, his bones are also great, he is rather lean thanfat, which leanness is so answerable to the other parts of hisbody, as the due proportion observed in his deformity, makeththe same to be a beauty. And as touching his inward dis-position, he is, as Vegetius saith, both temperate and wise, andable to abide great labour, cold and hunger, and very meet forthe war. Camerarius also saith that they be very swift, and quam in altitudine statura, propensior venter, exhaustus, ossa grandia, maciesgrata, et quibus pulcritudiues praestat ipsa deformitas: animus moderatus etprudens, et vulnerum patiens. 320 THE HORSES OF PREHISTORIC [CH. if they be provoked by some injury, they will both bite andstrike, otherwise not. Their pace is a trot. The Hungarian horses have been continually improved bythe introduction of Libyan blood, derived largely in latercenturies through Turkish channels. Accordingly it is
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