We will now show how one may rub down a horse with least danger to oneself and most advantage to the horse. If in cleaning him1 the man faces in the same direction as the horse, he runs the risk of getting a blow in the face from his knee and his hoof.
1 What follows refers to cleaning the fore-legs, to which a reference has doubtless dropped out of the text.
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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