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One of the poetical names for an horse in the classics is sonipes; a term taken from the clatter or sound of the feet in running, especially upon hard ground, whence Virgil says,
“Quadrupedante putrem sonitu quatit ungula campum.”
page 39 note [a] Not moist or soft, but in pulverem facile solubilem. Ruaeus ad loc.
page 39 note [b] Tonti, p. 166. Ifaiah v. 28. Thevenot, II. p. 113. Job Ludolphus in Commentario, p. 146.
page 39 note [c] Xenophon, , c.1.
page 40 note [d] Homer. Il. Λ. 152.
page 40 note [e] Idem Il. E. 772. Vide Thesaur. H. Steph. in voce.
page 40 note [f] Aristophanes, Equit. 549.
page 40 note [g] H. Steph. Thes. Gr. Tom. IV. col. 378, 379. Ellis, Fortuita Sacr. p. 338.
page 40 note [h] Montfaucon, Antiq. Tom. IV. p. 51. The passage he refers to is , c. 4.
page 41 note [i] ‘Omnino,’ lege, ita enim legit Pollux. Hefych. . Vir doctus in marg. edit. Aldin. in Biblioth. Leyd. ; Guietus ad Hefych.
page 41 note [k] If. Voss. ad Catullum, p. 48. et, ut puto, in marg. edit. Aldin, in Biblioth. Leyd. ubi eadem fere legimus.
page 41 note [l] Jul. Pollux, Lib. I. c. xi. § 200.
page 42 note [m] Calmet, Dict. v. Horse.
page 42 note [n] Deut. XVII. 16. See also 1 Kings x. 18. 2 Chron.1. 16, 17. IX. 28.
page 42 note [o] Deut. ibid. Genesis XLVII. 17. Exod. IX. 3. XIV. 9.
page 42 note [p] Deut. XX. 1. Josh. XI. 6. XVII. 16. 2 Sam. viii. 4.
page 42 note [q] Josh. ibid. and see Sherlock, Dissert. IV. annexed to his Book on Prophecy.
page 42 note [r] 2. Sam. VIII. 4, 5. See Sherlock, l. c.
page 43 note [s] Polyd. Verg. II. c. 12. Stewech. ad Veget. p. 132.
page 43 note [t] Polyd. Verg. ibid.
page 43 note [u] Feithii Antiq. Homer. IV. c. ii.
page 43 note [w] Sir Tho. Browne, Vulg. Err. V. c. 13. Feithius, p. 113.
page 43 note [x] Polyd. Verg. ibidem. Stewech. ad Veget. ibid.
page 43 note [y] Diod. Sic. apud Polydorum.
page 43 note [z] Polyd. Verg. ibid.
page 43 note [a] Virg. Georg. III. 115. and Servius ad loc. Pliny, N. H. Lib. VII. c. 56. This probably is the truth; the fables about Bellerophon, &c. not being objects of much regard.
page 43 note [b] Loc. cit.
page 44 note [c] H. Stephens indeed, in Thes. Gr. v. , represents them as armed at Troy; but see Dr. Clarke, on the other hand, ad Il. B. 1.
page 44 note [d] Dr. Martin ad loc.
page 44 note [e] If. Casaub, ad Aristoph. Equit. 549.
page 45 note [f] Montf. Antiq. IV. p. 50.
page 45 note [g] Idem, VII. p. 558.
page 45 note [h] Virgil Aen. VI. 802.
page 45 note [i] Appian, de B. Mithrid. p. 371. Ed. Tollii.
page 46 note [k] Pancirolus, Lib. II. tit. 16.
page 46 note [l] xviii. 25.
page 46 note [m] Suetonius in Nerone, c. 30.
page 46 note [n] Plin. N. H. XXXIII. c. 11.
page 46 note [o] Sueton. in Vespas. c. 23.
page 47 note [p] Pliny, N. H. xi. 45. and vide Aristot. H. Anim. II. 1. See Job Ludolphus in Comment. p. 146, and Tavernier, II. p. 29.
page 47 note [q] Calmet Dict. art. Horse. Bishop Sherlock, Diss. IV.
page 47 note [r] Pitisc. ad Suet. Ner. c. 30. Vesp. c. 23. and see below.
page 47 note [s] Thevenot. Il. p. 113.
page 48 note [t] Job Ludolphus, Hist. Aethiopic. I. c. 10.
page 48 note [u] Idem in Commentario, p. 146.
page 48 note [w] Vossius ad Catull. p. 48.
page 48 note [x] See more of such dressings in Vegetius and Schott. ed. Vair, p. 185.
page 49 note [y] Hist. Anim. II. 1.
page 49 note [z] Vide Hutchinson ad Κυρ. . p. 309. and Vossium ad Catull. l. c. The Bucaneers in America used the knees or joints of the raw hides for shoes.
page 49 note [a] Κυρ. . p. 319.
page 49 note [b] See Pitisc. ad Suet. Ner. c. 30.
page 50 note [c] Contf. Antiq. of France, p. 4. and plate VI.
page 50 note [d] Hist. de France, I. p. 566.
page 50 note [e] Dugd. Bar. I. 58. ex Chron. Bromtoni, p. 974, 975. Blount's Tenures, p. 50.
page 50 note [f] Blount's Tenures, p. 16. Morant's Effex, I. 144, ex Placit. Coron. 13 E.I.
page 51 note [g] Vegetius, Lib. II. c. ii.
page 51 note [h] Brooke's Catalogue, p. 65.
page 51 note [i] He had three horses killed under him; see Stowe, p. 99. Speed, p. 423. Hayward, p. 66, & seq. Monts. Antiq. of France, p. 27, 28. The horses of his army appear to have been shod in the tapestry of Bayeux, ib. pl. xlix.
page 51 note [k] Asser. Menev. p. 15. Rapin, I. p. 121.
page 51 note [l] Asser. and Rapin, loc. cit.
page 51 note [m] See the Essay on the Coins of Cunobelin, passim.
page 51 note [n] See Camd. Lincolnsh. col. 549.