Horses

The mighty, tall steed of yours is heard in your courses, ever onward;

harness the swift bay horses to the yoke for drawing — the best bearers to the yoke for drawing.

from you, O Maruts, comes he of good horses and brave heroes.

And in addition to this, we reflected that cowherds are the rulers of their cattle, that grooms are the rulers of their horses, and that all who are called herdsmen might properly be regarded as the rulers of the animals over which they are placed in charge.

And in the second place you shall use my horses and everything else you will;

for in Persia, on account of its being difficult to breed horses and to practise horsemanship because it is a mountainous country, it was a very rare thing even to see a horse.

The owner of a stallion has been held liable on this ground for damage done by the horse kicking and biting the plaintiff’s mare through a wire fence which separated their closes.

The word “cattle” includes horses and perhaps pigs.

Mather the defendant was out with a pair of horses driven by his groom.

Whatever falsehood we have uttered regarding dice, gold, cattle, horses, or other wealth — from that may this pure rice-oblation guard me from sin.

Whatever field you have wrongfully occupied, or whatever horse you have driven off — from that may this pure rice-oblation guard me from sin.

May this kingdom spread wide with cattle and horses;

They went to such lengths in the guarding of genealogies that they preserved the pedigrees of their horses through many generations, joining them to such of them as were famed for overtaking or for the race among the noble horses, such as Aʻwaj and al-Wajīh and Lāḥiq and al-Ghurāb and al-Yaḥmūm (1).

For if a company disagreed over ʻAmr ibn al-ʻĀṣ's conquest of Egypt — one of them saying that he took it by treaty, others saying that he took it by force, others that he came to it with four thousand fighting men, others that he came rather with ten thousand, and others disagreeing over whether the Arabs came to it upon horses or upon camels — would that indicate that Egypt was not conquered?

Like a lion, or the lion — Leonidas Lion of the forest — Napoleon Rock — Peter Lover of horses — Philip Gazelle — Darcas Lion — Leo

as when we conceive the two wings of an eagle, then conceive the body of a horse, then the legs of a gazelle, then the head of a man, and then bring all of them together and so conceive a mare having an eagle's wings, a gazelle's legs and a man's face;

as when we take from the horse those attributes of hers that distinguish her from plants and minerals — such as her sensing and her moving by her own will — and leave aside the other attributes that belong to her;

book, mountain, horse;

If, then, we should pick out all these horses, replacing them with mules, and should equip them for cavalry, it may be that this cavalry also will cause some annoyance to the enemy when they are in flight.

These proposals also were adopted, and in the course of that night a company of two hundred slingers was organized, while on the following day horses and horsemen to the number of fifty were examined and accepted, and jerkins and cuirasses were provided for them;

they are hanging on their horses’ backs, afraid not only of us, but also of falling off;

And if husbandry benefits horses and hounds, they benefit the farm no less, the horses by carrying the overseer early to the scene of his duties and enabling him to leave it late, the hounds by keeping the wild animals from injuring crops and sheep, and by helping to give safety to solitude.

but seeing that you are forced to meddle with horses, don’t you think that common-sense requires you to see that you are not ignorant of the business, the more so as the self-same horses are both good to use and profitable to sell?

And suppose I show you that some have been brought to penury by keeping horses, while others prosper by doing so, and moreover glory in their gain?

And if at times he takes his rest in listening to what summons to generosity, urges to open-handedness and stirs to courage, and in hunting and the chase in so far as it is training and exercise for his horses and his troops, there is no harm in it for him — though no listening is nobler than a wisdom that tells of the realities of things, and no hunting is more profitable than the snaring of the …

The swift horse must have its stumble, the sword its glancing blow, and the forbearing man his slip.

The fourth similitude — They said:

the difference arose among them from the bodies only” — meaning that if the soul of a horse were to inhere in the body of a man it would be rational, and conversely.

Thou'lt see the sturdy horses, though outstretched,

Yet sweating in their sleep, and panting ever,

As if, with barriers opened now.

And what of horses and other animals?

We must mount them when very young, said I, and first have them taught to ride, and then conduct them to the scene of war, not on mettlesome war-steeds, but on the swiftest and gentlest horses possible;

Now let the chariot of the Aśvins, three-wheeled and honey-laden, drawn by swift horses, come hither well-praised.

Yoke the ruddy horses today, O Dawn, you who have prize-winning mares.

Send forth your abundance, O sweet one, for the winning of cattle, for the winning of Indra's horses.

"Ho, ho, O swift horses of noble breed that carry Rāma — turn back, you must not go on!

Understanding the king's command, Sumantra, swift of movement, harnessed the chariot adorned with horses and drove it there.

Having seen the three — Rāma, Sītā, and Lakṣmaṇa — mounted, Sumantra boldly urged on the chosen horses, swift as the wind in their speed.

In the same way can be carried on the congress of a dog, the congress of a goat, the congress of a deer, the forcible mounting of an ass, the congress of a cat, the jump of a tiger, the pressing of an elephant, the rubbing of a boar, and the mounting of a horse.

, the hare man, the bull man, and the horse man, according to the size of his lingam.

In other words, the horse and mare, the bull and deer, form the high union, while the horse and deer form the highest union.

horse and rider he has cast into the sea," the many-limbed, brutish, impulsive passion — desire — together with the rider mounted upon it, the charioteer who has given the reins to pleasures, he has cast into the sea, hurling them into the disorders of the world.

So too Plato, in his treatise On the Soul, says that the charioteer and the horse that has revolted — the irrational part, which is cleft in two, into spirit and desire — fall down.

Meanwhile, beholding horses tied up in the same place, and then fighting and kicking one another, and a great crowd standing round and watching, until the one, worn out, broke loose and fled—he came up and crowned the one that remained, and proclaimed it victor at the Isthmian games, because it had conquered by kicking.

And Menelaos stroked the horse on neck and brow, coaxing it to go aboard.

Again, few know that the twenty-seventh of the month is best for opening a wine jar, and putting yokes on the necks of oxen and mules and swift-footed horses, and for hauling a swift ship of many thwarts down to the sparkling sea;

As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink Nestor said, "Sons, put Telemakhos' horses to the chariot that he may start at once.

Thus did he speak, and they did even as he had said, and yoked the fleet horses to the chariot.

or if you would rather travel by land you can have a chariot, you can have horses, and here are my sons who can escort you to Lacedaemon where Menelaos lives.

Hail, Tyndaridae, riders upon swift horses!

for Theophon, his wife's brother, at his death adopted one of his daughters and left her his property, consisting of land at Eleusis worth two talents, 60 sheep, 100 goats, furniture, a fine horse which he rode when he was a cavalry commander, and all the rest of his goods and chattels.

Is it not shameful, finally, that other cities have endured the last extremities of siege to preserve our empire, while we ourselves see no reason why we should bear even slight hardships to prevent our being forced to do anything contrary to our just rights, but are to be seen even at this moment feeding teams of ravenous horses, although, like men reduced to the direst extremities and in want of …

they are in like case with a man who, being but a wretched horseman, gets him a fine mount.