PREFACE. 



it is humbly conceived, the active patron of the xvvsg KeKrixa), 

 proud of his greyhounds, that 



are as swift 

 As breathed stags, aye fleeter than the roe, 



will peruse it con amore, and find in its pages much that 

 is entertaining and practically useful, and that utility enhanced 

 in the department of annotation. 



The literary courser, whose attention it more particularly 

 solicits, will reap the additional benefit of the light which 

 is thrown on Arrian's text by the ancient authors of Greece 

 and Rome ; and be ready to yield to the translator the humble 

 merit of having collected in one point of view the classical 

 elucidations of the Cynegeticus,' and the pertinent observations 

 of writers of a later period. 



Pro captu lectoris habent sua fata libelli ! 



The original manual is conversant with coursing, as practised 

 in the age of Hadrian and the Antonini, at which period the 

 Celtic hound was well known, and highly prized : but the 

 annotations of the translator have a more extensive range, 

 being selected from various Cynegetica in print and manuscript, 

 from the first institution of coursing to the present time." 



1. The editors of the Greek libellus confine their remarks almost exclusively to 

 critical annotations on the text. Indeed Holstein's edition has no notes ; Blancard's, 

 only a few marginal emendations; and Zeune's and Schneider's, very few parallel 

 passages. Such classical citations, therefore, as are adduced by the translator, are 

 for the most part of novel application. 



2. The quotations from the Cynegeticus of Xenophon the elder refer to the chase- 

 practices and kennel-discipline of Greece, antecedent to the institution of coursing. 



