[Footnote 75: 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.) It signifies a
branch of the palm-tree, whose name is synonymous to red,
(Aulus Gellius, ii. 26.)]