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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from On Horsemanship by Xenophon: riding, we will set down certain memoranda,[1] which, if applied
intelligently, may save the purchaser from being cheated.
[1] "Which the purchaser should lay to heart, if he does not wish to
be cheated."
First, then, let there be no mistake about the age. If the horse has
lost his mark teeth,[2] not only will the purchaser's hopes be
blighted, but he may find himself saddled for ever with a sorry
bargain.[3]
[2] Or, "the milk teeth," i.e. is more than five years old. See
Morgan, p. 126.
[3] Lit. "a horse that has lost his milk teeth cannot be said to
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