from Xemphon. ^j 



liim. Boy! To him, Boy! Now, Boy! 

 Now, Boy ! and he lignifies whether ihe is 

 taken or not. And, if flie is taken in the 

 iirft ring, the dogs are called oft, and they 

 try for another J but, if not, they follow 

 the dogs as fwiftly as poffible *, and do not 

 give her up, but perfevere diligently. 



And, if he meets them again while they 

 are purfuing her, the Huntfman fhould cry 

 out. Well done. Dogs ! Forward, Dogs ! 

 But, if the dogs are got very forward, fo 

 that he is not able to keep up, but is -f- 

 thrown out, and can neither perceive them 

 near him, nor hear their cry, nor fee them 

 hunting by the fcent, he fliould continue 

 running on, and call out to every one he 



* This, with the fucceeding account, is a full confu- 

 tation of the notion that the Ancients only ufed fcenting 

 dogs to find the Hare, but never purfued her by the fcent 

 after fhe was ftarted. Neither would Mr. Somerville's 

 friend have made this miftake, had he been as converfant 

 with this accurate defcription of the Attic Xenophon, as 

 he was with the defultory account of Oppian, one of 

 thofe 



quos Graecia non fuos alumnos 



Agnovit, in pejus ruentis sevi. 



P 3 happens 



