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Title: The horse, its treatment in health and disease with a complete guide to breeding, training and management
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Axe, J. Wortley
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: London, Gresham Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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RESTORATION OF THE FOUR-TOED ANCESTOR OF THE HORSE Protorohippus venticolus THE GRECIAN HOKSE 521 THE GRECIAN HORSE The Greeks, like the Jews, no doubt derived their knowledge of thehorse from the Egyptians, but neither Egyptians nor Jews have handeddown to us any authentic information relative to the cultivation ofhorses, a subject with which Grecian literature abounds. Consequently itis from Greek authors that our primary knowledge of ecjuine lore must beobtained, although previous to this period the Babylonian, the Assyrian,and the Egyptian empires flourished, and the ancient monuments dis-covered in these countries prove that the horse had not been used foragricultural or domestic purposes, but that his services had been confinedto the chase, to pageants, and to war. Traditions, poems, and mythsconstitute among ancient nations part of their historical resources, andHomer, Hesiod, and other authors have handed down to us most valuableinformation relative to the manners, customs, an

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