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observed that he was disturbed at and afraid of the mo- tion of his own shadow; then letting him go forward a little, still keeping the reins in his hand, and stroking him gently when he found him begin to grow eager and fiery, he let fall his upper garment softly, and with one nimble leap securely mounted him, and when he was seated, by little and little drew in the bridle, and curbed him with- out either striking or spurring him. Presently, when he found him free from all rebelliousness, and only impatient for the course, he let him go at full speed, inciting him now with a commanding voice, and urging him also with his heel. Philip and his friends looked on at first in silence and anxiety for the result, till seeing him turn at the end of his career, and come back rejoicing and tri- umphing for what he had performed, they all burst out into acclamations of applause ; and his father, shedding tears, it is said, for joy, kissed him as he came down from his horse, and in his transport, said, " my son, look thee out a kingdom ecpaal to and worthy of thyself, for Mace- donia is too little for thee." After this, considering him to be of a temper easy to be led to his duty by reason, but by no means to be com- pelled, he always endeavored to persuade rather than to command or force him to any thing ; and now looking upon the instruction and tuition of his youth to be of greater difficulty and importance, than to be wholly trusted to the ordinary masters in music and poetry, and the common school subjects, and to require, as Sophocles says, The bridle and the rudder too, he sent for Aristotle, the most learned and most celebra- ted philosopher of his time, and rewarded him with a munificence proportionable to and becoming the care he

took to instruct his son. For he repeopled his native