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Show ILr In II. Ilia ut llamer. Tho borsee uhhI in Homer's tlmo wire war bones. Hie wnrriorewrrti drawn In ruarlot. The mi of riding wa known, hut It I sllu hd to as something imuvu-ib Ulysses nt the . lime of hi shipwreck "bestrode n 1 plank, like u bonumau on ft big steed." Ilbrro are retuons for Ullevlug tint the practice of riding w a muib later Itlmn tlmtof drhlng. and tho myth of tit Centaur, where, according to H hake Mire, "man U Incur k1 nnd deml natural with the Uust," pnbably originated at an early MrIotl, when the 1 appearuneo of a man on horn-buck was I a novel sight Chtoag HcraJd. |