OOR L/F, U S. 



ARRIAN ON COURSING. 



The advantages that accrue to mankind from limiting, and 

 the regard of the Gods for those instructed in it by Chiron, ^ 

 and their honourable distinction throughout Greece, have been 

 related by Xenophon, the son of Gryllus. 



He has pointed out the simihtude between Cynegetical and 

 Military science ; ^ and the age, constitution, and frame of mind,^ 



Chap. I. 

 Preface. 



Summary 

 of Xenophon's 

 Cynegeticus. 



1. Chiron, the son of Saturn and the nymph Philyra, is fabled to have received his 

 knowledge of hunting from Apollo and Diana ; and to have instructed the numerous 

 disciples, recorded by Xenophon in the first chapter of his Cynegeticus, in the science 

 and practice of the chase. 



Quis primus tuiit ista viris ? hominumne Deumne 

 Ingeniis inventa ? dedit quis conimoda tanta ? 

 Delia Phillyridem primum Chirona fugaces 

 In sparsos per rura greges, sylvaque vagantes 

 Armavit, fecitque vias in commoda tanta. 



Natalis Comes 



de V^enatione 



L. IV. 



2. For the connexion of the Chase with Military Tactics, see Xenophon de Vena- 

 tione c. xii., the latter part of c. xiii. Cyropaedia L. i. c. v. 5i^ tovto SrjfjLOffla tov 

 6r\pav eirtfieKovTai' '6ti aXriQeffTaTT) SoKeT ai/rrj r/ fieKtrTj rSiv nphs rhv ■7r6\efx.ov ilvai. 

 L. VIII. c. XII. De Republic^, Lacedajmon. c. iv. 



3. See Xenophon de Venat. c. ii. whence the Greek poet of the chase has derived 

 the manners, dress, and weapons of his hunter : Oppian. Cyneget. i. 81. The 

 curious reader will be amused with the illustration of Xenophon's second chapter; of 

 Gratius's Cynegeticon, v. 332. and Oppian loc. cit. (all treating on the subject of the 

 hunter's character, &c.) in Edmund deLangley'sfHagstcr O((!5am0 ; wherein (c. xix. 



