36 PREFACE. 



pleasantly' diversified by such intermixture, and the mind 



returns from its lighter to its more serious avocations with 



Lucian. Hist, renewed vigour. — rolg TrepJ Xoyovg sa-7rou^ciX.oariv r^youi^ui Trpoa-rjKsiv 



fjiiTa. T^y TToXXrjv tu)V (rTiouduiOTsgwv uvuyvMcnv avuvon ts t;^i/ S*«voiav, 



The amusement derived from the Cynegeticus of Arrian, its 

 terse, elegant language, and valuable information, has been 

 my principal inducement to present it to the patrons of the 

 leash in an English dress ; that those who might never have 

 read the original, and might be unwilling, or, like Miramont 

 Beaumont and in " the Elder Brother," (who could " speak no Greek," and 



Fletcher's Ihe 



Kider Brother, held '' the sound sufficient to confirm an honest man" without 



act II. sc. I. 



a knowledge of its sense) unable to peruse it, might have an 

 opportunity of becoming acquainted wth the first author who 

 had treated systematically of coursing. For " those, " says 

 Christopher Wase in his preface to Gratius, " which are 

 curious artisans, doe not content themselves that they have 

 attained to so great perfection in their art, but are extremely 

 pleased to look back and reflect upon the periods and steps 

 whereby that art hath made its graduall progresse ; if per- 

 chance by comparing the former with the latter, even the 

 present state of it may be advanced." 



It was my wish that the copy should read like an original : 

 and if I have failed in this respect, as I fear and feel I have, 

 (for such an object is attended with far greater difficulties of 

 attainment than the inexperienced may suppose,) the failure 

 must be attributed to a fearfulness of assumine; too great a 

 licence of translation, and departing too far fiom the letter of 

 the original — a fear of paraphrasing instead of translating my 

 author ; whose lively and spirited language indicates a power of 



