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alone to purfue her flight in cafe flie efcaped 

 the nets ; for the death of the Game being 

 the chief objedt of the chace in the woody 

 and mountainous regions of Greece, it muft 

 be acknowledged that Xenophon advifes 

 means to accomplifh that end, which would 

 fubjed: him to the appellation of Poacher 

 from the modern fair Sportfman. And, as 

 the evidence of * Arrian confirms this, and 



* Arrian was a military Officer under the Emperor 

 Hadrian : being a follower of Epidletus, as Xenophon was 

 of Socrates, he was fond of comparing himfelf to the illu- 

 ftrious Athenian, writing on the fame fubjefts, and calling 

 himfelf, with no fmall degree of prefumption, the Second 

 Xenophon. He wrote a Treatife on Hunting, intended as a 

 fupplement to that of Xenophon, and which is, in faft, an 

 account of the method of courfmg ufed in his time, in which 

 he fays, " Xenophon, thefon of Gryllus, has given anac- 

 *• count of Hunting, particularly of Hare-hunting, and the 

 •' ufe of that exercife to the art of war ; but as he has taken 

 ** no notice of Greyhounds, which were not then known in 

 *• Greece, I fhall fupply that deficiency." 



proves 



