A man who can ride a horse is of little account, even though his muscles may be enormous, because he is in all the motions of the horse; and this is why his horse is called by the Greeks “Greek of the horse.”
[5.15.1] Now the weight of a horseman is a figure to him which he cannot determine by himself, because no one else can tell how heavy he is, and no one else can say how much he weighs.
A man whose weight is very large ought, of course, to have an iron helmet upon his head, not to let the light of day or the wind of day disturb his head, not to put anything on in an excessive state of motion, and not to wear shoes with too great cuffs and not too light saddles for his horse, or to drive at a very heavy pace if he would be able to keep a good trot.
Now, if you were a body which had the full strength of a horse, and had neither hair on the body nor any wrinkles, the eyesight of a horse would be better, if you looked back to the beginning of the race from one place, or from one beginning, than from the beginning of it from another place or from another beginning.
[5.15.2] But, as I am not writing for yourself in words which can be spoken to you in conversation, but simply in numbers, I will show you which way to move and how to move for yourself; and I am not telling you of course the motions from which your horses get such good speed, but will only suggest the motions which most suit your horse. To move well is the very root of a good life, and a man who moves well is free from the most important part of life; what you need is not strength of body nor strength of mind, but the freedom of freedom of mind. For I do not know how a man can be free and live a life of freedom whether he possesses a body composed of bones and arteries and flesh, or if he is like a bird having no wings, or a bird having only eyes and the body with no head.
[5.15.3] The horse, as I said, requires different motions to be used than a man needs. We may say of him that the horse feels when we feel, whether his ears are up or down. For the horse must be moved in such a way that he does not feel when we don’t;
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