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Besides, the mane, forelock and tail have been given to the horse by the gods as an ornament. A proof of this is that brood mares herding together, so long as they have fine manes,1 are reluctant to be covered by asses; for which reason all breeders of mules cut off the manes of the mares for covering.
1 Several allusions to this erroneous belief of the Greeks are collected by the commentators.
Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 7. E. C. Marchant, G. W. Bowersock, tr. Constitution of the Athenians. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1925.
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