Note 127 — Second Part. (continued 2)

Equum, qui nunc aries appellatur, in muralibus machinis, Epeum ad Troiam (sc. invenisse), (The horse, which now is called the ram, among engines for attacking walls, Epeus invented at Troy), says Pliny, Hist. Nat. bk. VII. ch. 57. (edit. Franz, Vol. III. p. 287.); similarly Pausanias, bk. I. ch. 23., ἵππος δούρειος μηχάνημα εἰς διάλυσιν τοῦ τείχους (a horse of wood an engine for the destruction of the wall). Further ἵππος (horse) is used as a nickname for a lewd man. The Scholiast on Oribasius, Collect. Med. bk. XXIV. ch. 8. in A. Mai, Auct. Class. e vatican. codd. edit. Vol. IV. p. 30. mentions ἵππος πύργος (horse tower), but in what sense we have not been able to decide.