[1908] Hardouin refers to the works of Busbequius, in which we meet with nearly the same account of the sagacity of the horse, as in Pliny; Lemaire, iii. 489.
[1909] As already mentioned in the Note to c. 54 of the last Book, there were four parties or factions of the charioteers who were named from the colour of their dress.
[1910] The games of the Circus were divided into the Patrician and the Plebeian; the first being conducted by generals, consuls, and the curule ædiles, the latter by the ædiles of the people.—B.
[1911] Related somewhat more at large by Plutarch, in his Life of Publicola.—B.
[1912] Many of these particulars are from Aristotle, Hist. Anim. B. vi. c. 22.—B.
[1913] Georgics, B. iii. l. 72, et seq.—B.
[1914] See Introduction to vol. i. p. vii.
[1915] Varro, de Re Rust. B. ii. c. 7; and Columella, B. vi. c. 29, have treated on this subject at considerable length.—B.
[1916] The materials of this chapter appear to have been principally taken from Aristotle, Varro, and Columella.—B.
[1917] See B. iv. c. 12.