Note 075 A horse of a bay or red color was styled by the Greeks, balan by the Barbarians, and spadix by the Romans. Honesti spadices, says Virgil, (Georgic. l. iii. 72, with the Observations of Martin and Heyne.) or signifies a branch of the palm-tree, whose name is synonymous to red (Aulus Gellius, ii. 26.)

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 41