THE PUBLISHED CLAIM
Praus was used of a war-horse trained to answer the lightest touch.
OR-C-2026-001 · CORRECTION
The war-horse definition of praus is unsupported.
THE CORRECTED BOUNDARY
Praus names a temper, not a leashed force. The war-horse has no ancient source.
Evidence gradePopular repetition onlyGrade of the published claim
DispositionNarrowedThe action taken by the House
OriginInherited through later commentaryThe method corrected its own work
THE CORRECTION · WHY THE CLAIM MOVED
The boundary beneath the tab.
The Glossary described praus as naming power under willing government—the bridled war-horse. There is no ancient source for it.
Xenophon calls a colt praos, but in a triplet with used to the hand and fond of people, describing an animal that arrives at the trainer already gentle. Where the word nears a light touch, it modifies the rider’s signals, not the horse. Aristotle’s praotēs is the mean concerning anger and involves no horse.
Vincent (1887) wrote, “It was applied to a horse; gentle.” Barclay (1956) added “completely under control” without citation. Anders (1999) added war-horses “under total and instantaneous control,” also without citation. Book Three printed the transmission as lexicography.
THE RECORD STATE
What is public, and how precisely dated.
- The Companion Lexicon now gives the lexical field as “gentle · meek · considerate.”
- The practice label now reads “Strength without domination.”
- The Keeper return now presents the formation inference as an authored application rather than a Greek definition.
Affected locationsBook Three · Companion Lexicon · Practice prompt · Keeper return
Date precisionDay-level date preserved from the supplied register.
SOURCES · NAMED AND LOCATABLE
The evidence remains outside the claim.
An entry is not permitted to make a missing report look complete. Published source trails remain linked; pending transfers remain visibly pending.
SUPERSESSION
This is the current entry.
It supersedes no earlier published entry and has not been superseded. If that changes, both directions of the chain will remain visible here.
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