saddle (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. ĕphippium (Gr. ἐφίππιον; the use of the saddle being learned from the Greeks)2. sella (late) • saddle (subs.): 1. ĕphippium (Gr. ἐφίππιον; the use of the saddle being learned from the Greeks): Cic. Fin. 3, 4, 15 (where it is referred to as a word current, but of questionable authority): esp. pl.: to ride with a s., ephippiis uti, Caes. B. G. 4, 2: Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 43 (optat ephippia bos piger, optat arare caballus): a s.-horse, (equus) ad ephippium., Varr. R. R. 2, 7, fin. (See Dict. Ant. p. 464.) 2. sella (late): horses for war, the race-course, the s., proeliis, circo, sellis [utiles equi], Veg. Vet. 4, 6, init.: and a little further on, ad usum sellae Persis meliores equos praestat. (Stragulum = horse-cloth, whereas ephippium denotes a proper saddle.) Phr.: some horses are better fitted for the s., others for draught, equi alii melius equitem patiuntur alii jugum (R. and A.) and v. supr.: to be firm in the s., equo firmiter insidere, cf. Liv. 7, 6: in equo [bene] haerere, Cic. Deiot. 10, 28 (equo haerere, poet., Hor. Od. 3, 24, 55): a horse with s. and bridle on, equus stratus ac frenatus: v. foll. art.