马术__Xenophon.pdf

英文名著3000 本 On Horsemanship by Xenophon Translation by H. G. Dakyns Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans,and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land and property in Scillus, where he lived for many years before having to move once more, to settle in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C. On Horsemanship advises the reader on how to buy a good horse, and how to raise it to be either a war horse or show horse. Xenophon ends with some words on military equipment for a cavalryman. 1 英文名著3000 本 I Claiming to have attained some proficiency in horsemanship[1]ourselves, as the result of long experience in the field, our wish is to explain, for the benefit of our younger friends, what we conceive to be the most correct mthod of dealing with horses. [1] Lit. Since, through the accident of having for a long time ridden ourselves, we believe we have become proficients in horsemanship, we wish to show to our younger friends how, as we conceive the matter, they will proceed most correctly in dealing with horses. {ippeuein} in the case of Xenophon = serve as a {ippeus}, whether technically as an Athenian knight or more particularly in reference to his organisation of a troop of cavalry during the retreat (Anab. III. iii. 8-20), and, as is commonly believed, while serving under Agesilaus (Hell. III. iv.14) in Asia, 396, 395 B.C. 2 英文名著3000 本 There is, it is true, a treatise on horsemanship written by Simon, the same who dedicated the bronze horse near the Eleusinion in Athens[2