Crescens was obviously proud of the horses which helped him win his memorable first race at a very young age (to calculate his age at his first win, figure out the number of years he raced based on the two dates given in the inscription, and then subtract this from his age at death). He must have been an incredibly strong boy to control those four large horses. The inscription gives the names of his horses (in the ablative in apposition with equis). The names all have appropriate meanings: Circius is the name of a wind, Acceptor refers to the swift-flying hawk, Delicatus means “darling” or “favorite,” and Cotynus designates a dark-purple color (this horse was obviously a bay like the first horse shown in the above mosaic, from the Villa del Casale in Piazza Armerina, Sicily).