[1381] Sueton. Vita Neronis, cap. 30.
[1382] Plin. lib. xxxiii. cap. 11.—Scheffer, De Re Vehiculari, proves that we are here to understand she-mules.
[1383] Dio Cassius, lxii. 28, and lxxiii. Commodus caused the hoofs of a horse to be gilt.
[1384] Commentar. in Epictetum, lib. iii.
[1385] Xenophon De Cyri Min. Expedit. p. 228.
[1386] B. F. Hermann, Beytrage zur Physik. Œkonomie der Russischen Länder. Berlin, 1786, 8vo, part i. p. 250. The same account respecting the dogs of Kamtschatka is given in Cook’s last Voyage.
[1387] Catullus, viii. 23. By which passage it appears that the shoe was of iron, iron wire, or plate-iron.
[1388] Sueton. Vita. Vespasian seems to have suspected that his driver had been bribed to stop by the way, and that he had done so on pretence of shoeing his horses. Had the mules been shod, and had the driver only had to rectify something that related to the shoe, as our coachmen have when a nail is lost, or any other little accident has happened, Suetonius would not have said mulas, but mulam. The driver therefore stopped for the first time on the journey to put on the shoes of his cattle, as has been remarked by Gesner.
[1389] Artemidori Oneirocritica. Lutetiæ, 1603, 4to, lib. iv. cap. 32.
[1390] Déscription des Pierres Gravées du Baron de Stosch, 1760, p. 169.