Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 423
horseman.Gravi -relief of Dexileos at Athens. 394 b.c. This is the grave-relief of one Dexileos, who fell in theCorinthian war in 394 B.C. The inscription on the base 366 ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCHOOL CLASSICS .says : Ae£iAews Aucravtou OopiKiof eyerero errl TetcravSpovup^ovros a.7re6aie e—… … ATHENIAN BORSEM \N. otherwise unrecorded feat performed by five horsemen.His dress is a short chiton and chlamvs; of course, inactual warfare, he would have been more efficiently armed.He is striking with his spear at one of the enemy whom hehas ridden down, and who, kneeling on the ground,…
Classical antiquities
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