Horses

Where are your horses?

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

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

All these lessons Cyrus eagerly learned.

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.

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.

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

may the stallion guard thee with prizes of victory.

May this kingdom spread wide with cattle and horses;

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

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.

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

Xenophon proceeded, I think we should burn up the wagons which we have, so that our cattle may not be our captains, but we can take whatever route may be best for the army.

But if anyone of you is despondent because we are without horsemen while the enemy have plenty at hand, let him reflect that your ten thousand horsemen are nothing more than ten thousand men;

Again, if a man wants to serve in the cavalry, farming is his most efficient partner in furnishing keep for his horse;

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?

Yes, and consequently if a man buys a horse and doesn’t know how to manage it, and so keeps on getting thrown and injuring himself by trying to ride it, the horse is not wealth to him, I presume?

As if, with barriers opened now.

Yet sweating in their sleep, and panting ever,

And straining utmost strength, as if for prize,

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;

The bay steeds have been let loose;

To him the swift horses hasten home;

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

"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.

The charioteer, joining his palms together, announced to the prince that chariot adorned with gold and yoked with the finest steeds.

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.

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.

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;

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

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.

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.

The law simply recognizes the master’s right of property in the slave—just as it recognizes his right of property in a horse.

What men know how to punish horses rightly?

Then if one were a horse, and did not know the good and wicked horses, would one not know which sort one was oneself?

One person wants to get possession of horses, another dogs, another money, and another distinctions:

And so we find no horse-lovers where the horses do not love in return, no quail-lovers, dog-lovers, wine-lovers, or sport-lovers on such terms, nor any lovers of wisdom if she returns not their love.

If I should urge you to buy a horse and fight against the invaders, and neither of us knew what a horse was, but I merely knew this about you, that Phaedrus thinks a horse is the one of the tame animals which has the longest ears—

but if I tried to persuade you in all seriousness, composing a speech in praise of the ass, which I called a horse, and saying that the beast was a most valuable possession at home and in war, that you could use him as a mount in battle, and that he was able to carry baggage and was useful for many other purposes—