An essay on the knowledge of the ancients respecting the art of shoeing the horse, and of the probable period of the commencement of this art / by Bracy Clark.
- Bracy Clark
- Date:
- 1831
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An essay on the knowledge of the ancients respecting the art of shoeing the horse, and of the probable period of the commencement of this art / by Bracy Clark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![vTTorpiftr]g, ec Bt0uv(av irtpiimpTnv. Equos vero tunc inutiles et infirmos ob inediam, claudicantesque Solearimi inopia, detritis ungulis, aversis ah Hoste Itineribus misit in Bithyniam.—Appianus De Bello Mitli- ridatico, Ed. Steph. 1592, p. 221.—Here Solearmn inop'ia are intro- duced by the learned translator (H. Stephanus) without the smallest authority in the original text, to make it appear that they were shod. And the commentator of Suetonius, under the life of Vespasian, has taken the same course; from which Schaeffer, in his truly learned and useful work, “ De Re Veliiculari Veterum, appears to have been led into error in the same belief. On examining the pas- sage he quotes as the words of Suetonius, we find he has mingled with it the words of the commentary, to make his proofs appear the more clear: * indeed the circumstance of the muleteer of the Em- peror getting down and fastening on the shoes of the mules, and de- taining the car while the solicitor, who had previously bribed the muleteer to do so, presented his petition to the Emperor, would show that they were not nailed shoes; for no coachman, in these more ex- perienced days, would undertake such an operation, or would have about him all the requisites for doing it, but would leave it to the smiths : that this, like most other passages, if fairly construed, would make against rather than for, their supposition. The following is the original passage of Suetonius : “ Mulionem in itinere quodam sus- picatus ad calciandas mulas desilisse, ut adeunti litigatori spatium moramque praeberet: interrogavit, quanti calciasset: pactusque est lucri partem.—Suetonius Vita Imp. Vespas. de Facetis, p. 120. * Ut testatur Suetonius in Vespasiano, qui frequenter solebat lectica tleferri in villain suam Cutiliam, sed a mulis quoniam quadraginta milliarum intervallo abesset Roma; Hinc qui lecticam ejus deferebat, solicitatoris cujusdam donis corruptus, e mulis retentus fingeret se aptaturum Soleam fcrream pedi unius ex mulis, tempus dabat supplici ad porrigendum Imperatori libellum.—Schaeffer De Re Vehiculari.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22392750_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
