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Title: The Horse : its treatment in health and disease, with a complete guide to breeding, training and management
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Axe, J. Wortley
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: London : Gresham
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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e existed during the flourishing days ofancient Greece. At the same time the Grecian horse might have been of onetype—the one linked to the chariot might have been of the same breed asthe one on which the trooper rode in battle,—and if such was the case itmust be accounted for on the supposition that the Grecian stock was ofArabian descent, for the statuary of horses discovered in the ruins of Ninevehgives portraitures of these animals very similar to the Grecian horses repre-sented in the Elgin marbles, and consequently both might have originatedfrom a common stock and birthplace. Buflbn considered that Arabia was thecentre from which the horse sprang, and this has been the generally acceptedopinion. This subject will be recurred to when writing on Arabian horses;let it suffice for the present to give the opinion of an eminent authorityoIt is generally supposed from the omission of all mention of horses while PLATt LXXIV ASSYRIAN HORSES From the P;ilace of Assur-bani-pal, Nineveh
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GREEK HORSES From tlic Parthenon Frieze THE HOKSES OF ROME 525 the Israelites were in Arabia that this country, which has since become socelebrated for them, was at that time entirely without them. The proofis, however, of an entirely negative character, though I confess that it is as-good as any of that nature can well be. Indeed 600 years later Arabiacould not in any way have been celebrated for her horses, for Solomon,whilst he resorted to her for silver and gold, mounted his cavalry fromEgypt. Yet the latter country could scarcely have been the native landof the horse, not possessing the extensive plains which are so peculiarlysuited to his existence in a wild state, and it is considered probable thathe was introduced from the central regions of Africa, which are undoubtedlythe native plains of the quagga, the zebra, and some other congeners ofthe horse, but where, curiously enough, he is not found in a wild state.—Stonehenge on the Horse. These arguments are based on the sujDpo

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