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  • -- Now, look out there! that bronze figure of a rearing horse -- the 'Taraxippos' they call it -- is put there to frighten the horses, and Megaera, our third horse, is like a mad thing sometimes, though she can go like a stag; every time Marcus gets her quietly past the Taraxippos we are nearer to success.

    Serapis — Volume 06 Georg Ebers 1867

  • -- Now, look out there! that bronze figure of a rearing horse -- the 'Taraxippos' they call it -- is put there to frighten the horses, and Megaera, our third horse, is like a mad thing sometimes, though she can go like a stag; every time Marcus gets her quietly past the Taraxippos we are nearer to success.

    Serapis — Volume 06 Georg Ebers 1867

  • -- Now, look out there! that bronze figure of a rearing horse -- the 'Taraxippos' they call it -- is put there to frighten the horses, and Megaera, our third horse, is like a mad thing sometimes, though she can go like a stag; every time Marcus gets her quietly past the Taraxippos we are nearer to success.

    Serapis — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

  • -- Now, look out there! that bronze figure of a rearing horse -- the 'Taraxippos' they call it -- is put there to frighten the horses, and Megaera, our third horse, is like a mad thing sometimes, though she can go like a stag; every time Marcus gets her quietly past the Taraxippos we are nearer to success.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • -- Now, look out there! that bronze figure of a rearing horse -- the 'Taraxippos' they call it -- is put there to frighten the horses, and Megaera, our third horse, is like a mad thing sometimes, though she can go like a stag; every time Marcus gets her quietly past the Taraxippos we are nearer to success.

    Serapis — Volume 06 Georg Ebers 1867

  • There was a god or genius named Taraxippos, "the scarer of horses," as M. Heuzey remarks.

    The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 Various

  • Each time that Marcus had driven round the obelisk or past the Taraxippos, Dada had clutched her head with her hands and set her teeth in her lip; each time, as he happily steered clear of the fatal stone and whirled past the dreadful bronze statue, she had relaxed her grip and leaned back in her seat with a sigh of relief.

    Serapis — Volume 06 Georg Ebers 1867

  • The melee at the Meta had excited his steeds almost beyond control, and as they tore past the Taraxippos the third horse, Megaera, shied violently as Demetrius had predicted.

    Serapis — Volume 06 Georg Ebers 1867

  • In spite of the delay that Marcus had experienced from the Taraxippos, the space that parted his bays from the black Arabs had sensibly diminished, round after round; and the interest of the race now centered entirely in him and the young

    Serapis — Volume 06 Georg Ebers 1867

  • In spite of the delay that Marcus had experienced from the Taraxippos, the space that parted his bays from the black Arabs had sensibly diminished, round after round; and the interest of the race now centered entirely in him and the young

    Serapis — Volume 06 Georg Ebers 1867

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