{"product_id":"2940016110554","title":"On Horsemanship","description":"ON HORSEMANSHIP\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClaiming to have attained some proficiency in horsemanship (1)\u003cbr\u003eourselves, as the result of long experience in the field, our wish is to\u003cbr\u003eexplain, for the benefit of our younger friends, what we conceive to be\u003cbr\u003ethe most correct method of dealing with horses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e (1) Lit. \"Since, through the accident of having for a long time\u003cbr\u003e    'ridden' ourselves, we believe we have become proficients in\u003cbr\u003e    horsemanship, we wish to show to our younger friends how, as we\u003cbr\u003e    conceive the matter, they will proceed most correctly in dealing\u003cbr\u003e    with horses.\" {ippeuein} in the case of Xenophon = serve as a\u003cbr\u003e    {ippeus}, whether technically as an Athenian \"knight\" or more\u003cbr\u003e    particularly in reference to his organisation of a troop of\u003cbr\u003e    cavalry during \"the retreat\" (\"Anab.\" III. iii. 8-20), and, as is\u003cbr\u003e    commonly believed, while serving under Agesilaus (\"Hell.\" III. iv.\u003cbr\u003e    14) in Asia, 396, 395 B.C.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is, it is true, a treatise on horsemanship written by Simon, the\u003cbr\u003esame who dedicated the bronze horse near the Eleusinion in Athens\u003cbr\u003e(2) with a representation of his exploits engraved in relief on the\u003cbr\u003epedestal. (3) But we shall not on that account expunge from our treatise\u003cbr\u003eany conclusions in which we happen to agree with that author; on the\u003cbr\u003econtrary we shall hand them on with still greater pleasure to our\u003cbr\u003efriends, in the belief that we shall only gain in authority from the\u003cbr\u003efact that so great an expert in horsemanship held similar views to our\u003cbr\u003eown; whilst with regard to matters omitted in his treatise, we shall\u003cbr\u003eendeavour to supply them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e (2) L. Dind.  (in Athens). The Eleusinion. For the position of this\u003cbr\u003e    sanctuary of Demeter and Kore see Leake, \"Top. of Athens,\" i. p.\u003cbr\u003e    296 foll. For Simon see Sauppe, vol. v. Praef. to \"de R. E.\" p.\u003cbr\u003e    230; L. Dind. Praef. \"Xen. Opusc.\" p. xx.; Dr. Morris H. Morgan,\u003cbr\u003e    \"The Art of Horsemanship by Xenophon,\" p. 119 foll. A fragment of\u003cbr\u003e    the work referred to, {peri eidous kai ekloges ippon}, exists. The\u003cbr\u003e    MS. is in the library of Emmanual Coll. Cant. It so happens that\u003cbr\u003e    one of the hipparchs (?) appealed to by Demosthenes in Arist.\u003cbr\u003e    \"Knights,\" 242.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e{andres ippes, paragenesthe nun o kairos, o Simon, o Panaiti, ouk elate\u003cbr\u003epros to dexion keras};\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ebears the name.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e (3) Lit. \"and carved on the pedestal a representation of his own\u003cbr\u003e    performances.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs our first topic we shall deal with the question, how a man may best\u003cbr\u003eavoid being cheated in the purchase of a horse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTake the case of a foal as yet unbroken: it is plain that our scrutiny\u003cbr\u003emust begin with the body; an animal that has never yet been mounted\u003cbr\u003ecan but present the vaguest indications of spirit. Confining ourselves\u003cbr\u003etherefore to the body, the first point to examine, we maintain, will be\u003cbr\u003ethe feet. Just as a house would be of little use, however beautiful its\u003cbr\u003eupper stories, if the underlying foundations were not what they ought\u003cbr\u003eto be, so there is little use to be extracted from a horse, and in\u003cbr\u003eparticular a war-horse, (4) if unsound in his feet, however excellent\u003cbr\u003ehis other points; since he could not turn a single one of them to good\u003cbr\u003eaccount. (5)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e (4) Or, \"and that a charger, we will suppose.\" For the simile see\u003cbr\u003e    \"Mem.\" III. i. 7.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e (5) Cf. Hor. \"Sat.\" I. ii. 86:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eregibus hic mos est: ubi equos mercantur, opertos inspiciunt, ne, si\u003cbr\u003efacies, ut saepe, decora molli fulta pede est, emptorem inducat hiantem,\u003cbr\u003equod pulchrae clunes, breve quod caput, ardua cervix.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eand see Virg. \"Georg.\" iii. 72 foll.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47101225959664,"sku":"2940016110554","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016110554","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}