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Horses would often be swapped out at stations when a wealthy person would have to travel very quickly across a long distance. Maybe this is an average since the
by eschulz 2y ago
Horses would often be swapped out at stations when a wealthy person would have to travel very quickly across a long distance. Maybe this is an average since the speed with which horsemen could travel would depend on the rate at which they exchanged their horses.
In an extreme example from the year 9 BC, the future emperor Tiberius traveled on the Roman Roads 330 miles (531 km) between northern Italy and modern day Mainz, Germany in 36 hours without sleep. He was rushing to the deathbed of his older brother Drusus after the latter suffered mortal injuries in a freak horse accident. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drususstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drususstein
- Phenomenit 2y agoSo he rode really fast, reckless and sleep deprived to his brother who’d been injured in a horse riding accident?
- marcosdumay 2y agoPeople never change.
- eschulz 2y agohaha hadn't thought about that, although the Roman Roads could be considered to be a safe highways as opposed to the dangerous paths in Germania. If one of the main characters in The Fast and the Furious gets hurt in a street race, would not his teammates race to him as fast as they could?
- shiroiushi 2y agoIt does seem a bit ironic (is that the right word?), but it's not like there were many other options for travel at that time.
- moi2388 2y agoYes, for wealthy people who could swap out horses. If it was just a regular person like you or I with a horse, it wouldn’t increase your speed and even slow you down. Horses were used for pulling or carrying loads, they are only faster on short high speeds, not long distances