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cicnt hunting, as we find it in the Antiqiii- 

 ties of Pere de Montfaucon, taken from the 

 fepulchre of the Nafos, and the arch *of 

 Conftantine, has not the leaft trace of the 

 manner now in ufe. 



Whenever the ancients mention dogs fol- 

 lowing by the fcent, they mean no more 

 than finding out the game by the nofe of 

 one fingle dog. This was as much as they 

 knew of the odora canum vis. Thus Ne- 

 mefianus fays, 



Odorato nofcunt veftigia prato, 

 Atque etiam leporum fecreta cubilia monftrant. 



They challenge on the mead the recent ftains. 

 And trail the hare unto her fecret form. 



Oppian has a long defcription of thefe dogs 

 in his firfi: book from ver. 479 to 526, 

 And here, though he feems to defcribe the 

 hunting of the hare by the fcent through 

 many turnings and windings, yet he really 

 fays no more, than that one of thofe 

 hounds, which he calls iKviv1ri^e<;, finds out 

 the game. For he follows the fcent no fur- 

 ther than the hare's form j from whence, 

 after he has flarted her» he purfues her by 



fight. 



