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    MAVRETANIA.----An inhabitant of this province stands with a spear in his left hand, and holds with the other a horse by the bridle.----This name and appropriate type of the Moorish race, appears on a large brass of Hadrian, of which an illustration is here given.

The cavalry of the Mauri was renowned of old both for the excellence of the horses and the skill of the riders.----Accordingly we find the figures of horses stamped even on the earliest coins of the Mauretanian Kings. That this equestrian people were employed, under their leader Lusius Quintus, in the various wars of Trajan, is attested in several passages of Dion; and the Trajan column itself affords a lasting testimony to this fact, in that compartment of its sculptured shaft, on which the Moorish horsemen are represented making a furious charge upon the Dacians.
    The Mauretanian is depictured on the coin, walking with bridle and lance in his hand, because that people, according to Strabo, generally fought with spears and on horseback.
 

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    MAVRETANIA.----An inhabitant of this province stands with a spear in his left hand, and holds with the other a horse by the bridle.----This name and appropriate type of the Moorish race, appears on a large brass of Hadrian, of which an illustration is here given.

The cavalry of the Mauri was renowned of old both for the excellence of the horses and the skill of the riders.----Accordingly we find the figures of horses stamped even on the earliest coins of the Mauretanian Kings. That this equestrian people were employed, under their leader Lusius Quintus, in the various wars of Trajan, is attested in several passages of Dion; and the Trajan column itself affords a lasting testimony to this fact, in that compartment of its sculptured shaft, on which the Moorish horsemen are represented making a furious charge upon the Dacians.
    The Mauretanian is depictured on the coin, walking with bridle and lance in his hand, because that people, according to Strabo, generally fought with spears and on horseback.