[333] These ornaments of horse-trappings vividly remind us of the famous passage in the Iliad IV., 141:
ὡς δ᾿ ὅτε τις τ᾿ ἐλέφαντα γυνὴ φοίνικι μιήνῃ
Μῃονὶς ἠὲ Κάειρα παρήïον ἔμμεναι ἵππων·
κεῖται δ᾿ ἐν θαλάμω, πολέες τέ μιν ἠρήσαντο
ἱππῆες φορέειν· βασιλῆï δὲ κεῖται ἄγαλμα,
ἀμφότερον, κόσμος θ᾿ ἵππω, ἐλατῆρί τε κῦδος·
"As when some Carian or Mæonian maid
With crimson dye the ivory stains, designed
To be the cheek-piece of a warrior's steed,
By many a valiant horseman coveted,