horse-service

Updated: August 22, 2026

For those that were not good at fighting themselves, hired such as were more military in their inclinations, and such as loved not horse-service substituted in their places such as did. Agamemnon's example had been a good one, when he took the present of an excellent mare, to dismiss a rich coward from the army.

Plutarch - Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans