[1153]. Il. ε. 358.
[1154]. Xenoph. de Re Equest. iv. 4.
[1155]. Plat. de Rep. t. vi. p. 158.
[1156]. Xenoph. de Re Equest. ii. 2. Cf. Œconom. iii. 11. xiii. 7.
[1157]. Geop. xvi. i. 11.
[1158]. Xen. de Re Equest. 10. 6. Poll. viii. 184.
[1159]. The swimming powers of the war-horse were probably augmented by exercise, since we find them passing by swimming from Rhegium to Sicily. Plut. Timol. § 19. This feat, however, was nothing to that of the stags which swam from Syria to Cyprus! Ælian. De Nat. Anim. v. 56.
[1160]. Sch. Aristoph. Nub. 32. Cf. 25, 28.
[1161]. Aristoph. Eq. 601. Nub. 25. Spanh. in loc. Athen. xi. 30.
[1162]. In carting wood from Mount Ida in the Troad oxen are at present substituted for asses, and the bodies of the vehicles they draw, in form resembling ancient cars, are constructed of wickerwork. Chandler, i. 47.