from Arrlan, ^g 



for them to roll on the ground, as we fee 

 horfes do ; for, by that means, they will 

 not feem tired, and, at the fame time, will 

 recover their fatigue, 



Thofe who have not good Hare- finders, 

 go commonly out, a number in company, 

 on horfeback ; and, coming to a likely 

 place, when they happen to ftart a Hare, 

 let the greyhounds loofe after her. But 

 thofe, who are more diligent after the fport, 

 go out on foot ; and, if any one accom- 

 panies them oa horfeback, it is his bulinefs 

 to follow the dogs when they run, ^ They 



beat 



irai ecvTx ^ix Tuv avrvi. Of which Blancard gives the follow- 

 ing extraordinary interpretation : * ' Circumeunt autem 

 *♦ fronte fibi invicem obverfi ; dein refta ad juftum aliquod 

 *' fpatiunj progreffi, rurfus per eadem loca, eodeijique tra-» 

 ♦' mite, iter fleftunt." ** They go round, being drawn up 

 *' oppofiteeach other; and, proceeding ftraight forwards tq 

 ♦* a certain fpace, return to the fame place, by the fame 

 *' way they came," I believe this manoeuvre would be very 

 difficult to execute. To draw up, or march, lir). lAtrunn, 

 was a military expreffion, exaftly equivalent with our 

 faying, in battalion ; that is, with an extended front ; or, 

 in Dr. Hutchinfon's words, *' Exercitum refta fronte et 

 ♦^ bene compofita ducere.'* For the pieaning of imr^B- 



