Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship, chapter 9, section 8

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[8] One must prevent¹ a high-spirited horse from going at his top speed, and of course, entirely avoid letting him race with another horse; for as a rule the most highly spirited horses are also most eager for victory.

1 Or, reading τότε τοῦ for τοῦ with Pollack “one must try to stop a spirited horse even then from going at his full speed.” A has τότε for τοῦ.

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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