HIOKi'UL ANEUM 



PREFACE. 



Nee desiuat unquam 

 Tecum Graia loqui teciun Romana vetustas. — Claudian, 



The following version does not aim at pleasing the mere 

 literary man. It was not undertaken with the ambitious 

 expectation of being generally acceptable. It is addressed to 

 the coursing public alone — to the amateurs of the leash ; for 

 whom the original was written, seventeen centuries ago, by 

 their representative of old, a courser of Nicomedia in Asia 

 Minor; and for whose amusement and instruction the same 

 now assumes an English garb. 



The general reader will find little in it to interest him. He 

 will perhaps consider it altogether unworthy of his notice. 

 The sportsman, fond of 



the inasical confusion 

 Of hounds and echo in conjunction, 



will read it with indifference, as treating of a branch of rural 

 sport, not congenial to his taste ; and wonder that an attempt 

 should be made to bring under public notice so ancient a 

 treatise on a subject of such partial interest. But the courser, 



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