Lastly, By any man versed in Antiquity, the question can hardly be avoided, why the Horses of these Worthies, especially of _Cæsar_, are described with the furniture of great saddles, and stirrops; for saddles largely taken, though some defence there may be, yet that they had not the use of stirrops, seemeth of lesser doubt; as _Pancirollus_ hath observed, as _Polydore Virgil_, and _Petrus Victorius_ have confirmed, [SN: De inventione rerum, variæ Lectiones.] expresly discoursing hereon; as is observable from _Pliny_, and cannot escape our eyes in the ancient monuments, medals and Triumphant arches of the _Romans_. Nor is there any ancient classical word in Latine to express them. For _Staphia_, _Stapes_ or _Stapeda_ is not to be found in Authors of this Antiquity. And divers words which may be urged of this signification, are either later, or signified not thus much in the time of _Cæsar_. And therefore as _Lipsius_ observeth, lest a thing of common use should want a common word, _Franciscus Philelphus_ named them _Stapedas_, and _Bodinus Subicus_ Pedaneos. And whereas the name might promise some Antiquity, because among the three small bones in the Auditory Organ, by Physitians termed _Incus_, _Malleus_ and _stapes_, one thereof from some resemblance doth bear this name; these bones were not observed, much less named by _Hippocrates_, _Galen_, or any ancient Physitian. But as _Laurentius_ observeth, concerning the invention of the stapes or stirrop bone, there is some contention between _Columbus_ and _Ingrassias_; the one of _Sicilia_, the other of _Cremona_, and both within the compass of this Century.