my horse and take a canter. I put him through his paces, suiting
these, as far as possible, to those inevitable in war[14]--in other
words, I avoid neither steep slope[15] nor sheer incline, neither
trench nor runnel, only giving my utmost heed the while so as not to
lame my horse while exercising him. When that is over, the boy gives
the horse a roll,[16] and leads him homewards, taking at the same time
from the country to town whatever we may chance to need. Meanwhile I
am off for home, partly walking, partly running, and having reached
home I take a bath and give myself a rub;[17] and then I breakfast--a
repast which leaves me neither empty nor replete,[18] and will suffice
to last me through the day.

[12] See "Mem." III. xiii. 5.

[13] {xusto}--the xystus, "a covered corrider in the gymnasium where
the athletes exercised in winter." Vitruv. v. 11. 4; vi. 7. 5. See
Rich, "Companion," s.n.; Becker, op. cit. p. 309. Cf. Plat.
"Phaedr." 227--Phaedrus loq.: "I have come from Lysias the son of
Cephalus, and I am going to take a walk outside the wall, for I
have been sitting with him the whole morning; and our common
friend Acumenus advises me to walk in the country, which he says
is more invigorating than to walk in the courts."--Jowett.

[14] See "Horsemanship," iii. 7 foll.; ib. viii.; "Hipparch," i. 18.

[15] "Slanting hillside."

[16] See "Horsemanship," v. 3; Aristoph. "Clouds," 32.

[17] Lit. "scrape myself clean" (with the {stleggis} or strigil. Cf.