[1351] Plutarchus, Vita C. Gracchi.
[1352] This inscription may be found in Thom. Porcacchi Funerali Antichi. Venet. 1574, fol. p. 14.
“Dis pedip. saxum
Cinciæ dorsiferæ et cluniferæ,
Ut insultare et desultare commodetur,
Pub. Crassus mulæ suæ Crassæ bene ferenti
Suppedaneum hoc cum risu pos.”
Here Dis pedip. seems to be an imitation of Dis Manibus; saxum of the usual word sacrum: and bene ferenti of bene merenti.
[1353] Lipsius De Milit. Romana, p. 410. Pitisci Lexic. Antiq. These servants were called also ἀναβολεῖς.
[1354] Eutrop. lib. ix. cap. 6.—Victor. epit. 46.—Trebell. Pollio, Vita Valeriani.—Hofmanni Lexic. artic. Calcandi hostium corpora ritus, p. 642.
[1355] Strabo, lib. iii. says that the Spaniards instructed their horses in this manner.
[1356] Lipsius understands in this sense what Livy says, book iv. chap. 19, of Cornelius Cossus, “Quem cum ictum equo dejecisset, confestim et ipse hasta innisus se in pedes excepit.”
[1357] Figures of both may be seen in Berenger, tab. 8.
[1358] De Promiscua Doctrina, cap. 28.