When a man has found a horse to his mind,
						bought him and taken him home, it is well to have the stable so situated
						with respect to the house that his master can see him very often; and it is
						a good plan to have the stall so contrived that it will be as difficult to
						steal the horse’s fodderout of the manger as the master’s victuals from the
						larder. He who neglects this seems to me to neglect himself; for it is plain
						that in danger the master entrusts his life to his horse. But a well-secured stall is not only good for preventing theft of the fodder
						but also because one can see when the horse does not spill his food. In healthy excitement. See J. K. Anderson,
							in J.H.S. 80.1-2. And on noticing this one may be
						sure that either his body is overfull of blood and needs treatment or the
						horse is overworked and wants rest, or that laminitis So J. K. Anderson, Ancient Greek
								Horsemanship, pp. 162, 207, not, as was once believed,
							colic. or some other ailment is coming on. It is the same with
						horses as with men: all distempers in the early stage are more easily cured
						than when they have become chronic and have been wrongly treated.