[141] INCITATUS, the swift--_equo incitato_--in a stretching gallop--a famous favorite horse of the emperor Caligula. (Suet. _Cal._ 55.) The emperor built this animal a palace, gave orders that it should feed from an ivory manger, and be attended by slaves clad in rich garments. When it was to appear in the circus, all noise in its neighborhood was prohibited during the whole of the preceding day, that the noble creature’s rest should not be disturbed. Caligula is said to have intended to make his Incitatus consul. [142] ANDRAEMON, ADSERTOR, VASTATOR AND PASSERINUS. Names of horses frequently mentioned during the reign of the Roman emperors. Andraemon often won the race in Domitian’s time. Monuments with the portrait of this racer have come down to us. [143] QUADRIGA. A carriage in front of which four horses were fastened abreast. The racing quadrigae were exactly like the old Homeric chariot--being provided with a breast-work in front while open in the rear. [144] SCORPUS. A famous chariot-driver in Domitian’s time, see the epitaph Martial composed for him. (Martial _Ep._ X, 53.) “I am that Scorpus, glory of the race Rome’s admired joy, but joy for a short space, Among the dead Fates early me enroll’d, Numb’ring my conquests, they did think me old.” ANON, 1695. That the name of Scorpus was on every lip appears from another passage in Martial _Ep._ XI, 1, which runs as follows: “Nor will your follies by those few Be told; but when their stories flag Of some new bet or running nag.” HAY. where the Incitatus to whom reference is made is not Caligula’s horse, already mentioned, but a racer named for it. [145] SARMATIANS. A people in what is now Poland and Tartary. (See Mart. _Spect._ 3.) [146] HYPERBOREANS. People who lived above Boreas, fabulous folk dwelling in the extreme north; also Northmen in general. For instance Martial includes among the Hyperboreans, the Chatti (Hessen) and Dacians, inhabitants of eastern Hungary. [147] JULIA. The daughter of the Emperor Titus, with whom Domitian for a long time had unlawful relations. Dio Cass. LXVII, 3. Suet _Dom._ 22.