rses {equifunaJcs), which were accordingly selected with the greatest care.The varying tactics of racing were familiar to the aurigae, whorecord in their inscriptions how they made all the running(ocmpavit et vicit), snatched a victory on the post {eripuit et vicit),and so forth. A chariot-race is… … Fig. 58 a. property of individual citizens; a law of the XII Tables, quotedby Pliny {N. H. xxi. 7), relaxed the severity of the sumptuar}-restrictions on burials so far as to allow the crowns won in thegames to be buried with their owners. But before the close ofthe Republic companies (fadiones)…
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