42 PREFACE. 



This, I trust, will be received as an apology ; and that the 

 practical notes interspersed with the classical, will redeem my 

 character as a moderate amateur of the sport, and give 

 admission to this translation on the courser's table. 



Oppian. Cy- alnap iywv ipiw to, t' i/jLo7s ISov o(pQaKfiol(Xi, 



nee. L. iv. vs. „, , ,. , , ^ , 



, ^ 6i\p-r)v ayXaooaipov iincrreiXi^y ^vMxotcrtv 



Sffffa t" an avdpdnrtev 45driv, rolaiv ra /ue'|U7jA€, 



al6\a TravToiTjs iparris fxvcrTripia rex^V^- 



With the exception of Somerville, " who has shown, " as 

 Dr. Johnson observes, " by the subjects which his poetry has 

 adorned, that it is practicable to be at once a skilful sportsman 

 and a man of letters," I have extracted very little from writers 

 of the last century : but the natural historians, poetic and 

 prosaic authors of the olden time, whose works are not of very 

 common occurrence in our libraries, have afforded much infor- 

 mation confirmatory of Arrian's opinions. These selections, as 

 well as those from ancient English authors, incorporated with 

 this preface, have been left in their original spelling, so hap- 

 Specimens of pily expressed by Mr. Ellis as " that fortuitous combination of 



English Poets, 



Vol. I. p. 11. letters, which the original transcribers or printers had assigned 

 to them." 



A knowledge of what others have written on a subject on 

 which we ourselves are about to write appears indispensable. 

 '^ Although I were very much experienced," says the translator 

 of Gratius, " in any art, and were apt to conceive a good 

 opinion of my own ability therein, yet being to publish a 

 discourse concerning it, I was obliged to inform myself of 

 what others had formerly proposed in the same matter, as far 

 as may conveniently be attained. There are some who esteem 

 it glory to be thought to have declined any other heli)s but 



