Horsemanship
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
art of horsemanship · horseback · horsemanship · horsemen · horses · ride · riding
in the texts
Antidosis
The skill used to illustrate how absurd it would be for a city to punish its own characteristic excellence.
It would be as if the Lacedaemonians were to attempt to penalize men for training themselves in preparation for war, or as if the Thessalians saw fit to punish men for practicing the art of horsemanship.
Cyropaedia
A Median skill Cyrus lacks at first, learns eagerly, and uses in contests and dangerous hunts.
All these lessons Cyrus eagerly learned.
but here I know that I am inferior to my fellows in horsemanship.
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.