Horses

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

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

Where are your horses?

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 word “cattle” includes horses and perhaps pigs.

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

Quite early in the century it had been held that if a man’s horse runs away with him, and runs over another man, he is not even prima facie a trespasser, so that under the old rules of pleading it was wrong to plead specially in justification.

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;

What is said above concerning the Mrigi and the Hastini applies also to the Vadawa (Mare) woman.

When a woman forcibly holds in her yoni the lingam after it is in, it is called the "mare's position.

Woman also, according to the depth of her yoni, is either a female deer, a mare, or a female elephant.

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?

Thou'lt see the sturdy horses, though outstretched,

Yet sweating in their sleep, and panting ever,

As if, with barriers opened now.

But is not a beautiful mare beautiful, which even the god praised in his oracle?

for very beautiful mares are bred in our country.

and again all the animals, a beautiful horse or cock or quail and all utensils and land vehicles, and on the sea freight-ships and ships of war;

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;

In time of war, too, they relaxed the severity of the young men’s discipline, and permitted them to beautify their hair and ornament their arms and clothing, rejoicing to see them, like horses, prance and neigh for the contest.

in the breeding of dogs and horses they insist on having the best sires which money or favour can secure, but they keep their wives under lock and key, demanding that they have children by none but themselves, even though they be foolish, or infirm, or diseased;

For a good leader makes good followers, and just as the final attainment of the art of horsemanship is to make a horse gentle and tractable, so it is the task of the science of government to implant obedience in men.

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.

And horses that kick when mounted must be got rid of, for such brutes often do more mischief than the enemy.

Under the stimulus of this threat men would break in such animals more thoroughly and would be more careful in buying horses.

Try it, and you will find your horses’ feet round, and will believe in the rest of my rules.

in natural productions (for man begets man), unless something happens contrary to nature, as when a horse sires a mule.

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.

the pig will eat ordure, the horse will not.

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 …