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1 A more literal rendering would be "they shook off (or out) their bits," but it is hard to see how horses could do this. Curtius 3.11.11 renders the same idiom as "iugum quatere," "toss the yoke." If, as has been suggested in the Introduction, Diodorus was using Trogus as a source, it may be that he was put to it to translate a Latin saying. We may assume that the horses reared and tossed and shook their heads, making their control almost impossible. This is how they are represented in the Alexander Mosaic.
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