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appear to have been occafioned by negli- 

 gence, but from his ignorance of * grey- 

 hounds and of the ufe of Scythian and 

 Libyan horfes. Thefe things I iliall treat 

 of, being of the fame -f- name and country, 

 and from my youth addided to the fame 

 purfuits of War, Hunting, and Philofophy; 

 jufl: as he, when he thought proper to 

 write concerning thofe matters relating to 

 Horfemaniliip, v/hich were omitted by 

 Simo, did not do it by way of entering int6 

 a competition with X Simo, but that his 

 Treatife might be ufeful to mankind. 



* Courfing being firfl: ufed by the Gauls, a Greyhound 

 was called Kvuv KihtiKo;, and in Latin Canis Gallicus. 



■f Arrian was a military officer under the Emperor Ha- 

 drian. He was a native of Nicomedia, in Bithynia; but, 

 being admitted to the freedom of Athens, being a foldier 

 alfo, and a difciple of Epiftetus, as Xenophon was of So- 

 crates, he was fond of imitating him in his ftyle and manner 

 of writing, as well as in the fubjefts he wrote on, calling 

 himfelf s,tvo(pm h ^ivrt^o^. The Second Xenophon. 



X Xenophon, fpeaking of Simo, fays, •* Wherever I 

 *' think with him, I {hall not leave it out of my own 

 " Treatife, but the more readily communicate it to my 

 " friends, thinking they will efteem my fentiments more 

 *' worthy of credit for coinciding with thofe of fo fkilful a 

 *' Horfeman. But what he has omitted I Ihall endeavour to 

 " fupply." 



That 



