BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE 



CYNEGETICUS, 



WORK ON COURSING. 



The Cynegeticus was originally written by Arrian, in imita- 

 tion of Xenophon's Treatise de Venatione, to supply the 

 lacunae of that work in the particular department of Coursing. 



The manuscript seems to have been neglected in the Vatican 

 library for several years after it had been first discovered, in 

 consequence of its bearing the name of Xenophon : for the 

 persons who accidentally met with it, not being aware of 

 Arrian's assumption of that title, took no pains to examine it, 

 under an impression that it was the edited Cynegeticus of the 

 elder Xenophon, and not a new and unknown treatise on a 

 different branch of the same subject, by an author of the same 

 assumed name, a pseudo-Xenophon. 



We are told by Mausacus that Rigaltius intended to have 

 edited it with the Scriptores de Re Accipitraria et de Cura 

 Canum, (the first edition of which he published in 1612, with 

 a forged epistle in Castilian and Latin from Aquila Sym- 

 machus and Theodotion to a Ptolemy, King of Egypt,) but the 



