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AERIAN 



Chap. I. 



Omissions 

 therein. 



that essentially qualify for entering on the chase ; — has given 

 a description of purse-nets, hayes, and road-nets, * such as are 

 necessary to be prepared — the mode of fixing snares for ani- 

 mals that may be entrapped ^ — the natural history of hares, 

 their food, haunts, forms, and the method of searching for 

 them — what dogs are clever at scenting, and what faulty — 

 and how, by their shape and work, each may be ascertained. 

 Some few remarks are also left by him on the boar-hunt, the 

 stag, bear, and lion chases — how these animals may be taken 

 by cunning and stratagem. 



The omissions of his work (which do not appear to me to 

 have arisen from negligence, but from ignorance of the Celtic 

 breed of dogs, ^ and the Scythian and African horses,) I shall 



Xenopbon 

 de Venat. c. ii. 



Jul. Pollucis 

 Ononiast. L. v. 

 c. IV. 26. 27. 



Minshjei Emen- 

 datio in voce 

 Grei-liound. 



p. 70.) he tutors the hunter from the age of seven or eight (" for oo craft requireth al 

 a niannys lif or he be parfite therof, &c.") in all the arcana of kennel management; 

 and particularly enjoins that he be " wel avised of his speche, and of his termys, and 

 ever glad to lerne, and that he be no booster ne jangelere," &c.; and so Xenophon, 

 iirtdvfiovvTa rod epyov Koi ttJv ^wv^i'''E\\rii'a, Trjv 5e riXiKiav k. t. \. 



4. Three varieties of nets were employed by Grecian sportsmen, apKies, SiKria, and 

 ivoSia, corresponding to the Roman casses, retia, and plaga. See Xenophon de V. 

 c. II. The first were conical, tunnel-shaped, purse-nets ; KeKpv<pd\cj> 5e eoj/cotri Karh rh 

 aXOt^"-! f'S olu KaraXiiyovaai : the second, nets or hayes for open places, for encircling 

 coverts, &c. to tV rots hixaKols, koI IcroireSois tffrdfxeva : the third, road-nets, for being 

 placed across roads, and tracKs frequented by animals of chase, to eV toTj 68o7s of 

 Julius Pollux. 



5. Xenophon treats of entrapping deer, &c. de Venat. c. ix. ; of hares, &c. c. v. 

 and VI.; of dogs, &c. c. in. iv. and vii.; of stag-hunting, &c. c. ix. ; of the boar- 

 chase, c. X. ; of the bear and lion chases, &c. c. xi. ; and many of the same subjects 

 are beautifully described in the Cynegetics of the poet of Anazarbus, and delineated 

 in Montfaucon, Tom. in., and in the rare plates of Joannes Stradanus and P. Galle, 

 under the title of " Venationes Ferarum." 



6. ToD yevovs tuv kvvuiv tov KeXriKov — the greyhounds of modern days. Coursing 

 having been first practised by the inhabitants of Gallia Celtica, the greyhound was 

 called Kviiv KiKriKhs, canis Gallicus, (quibus Galli maxime utuntur, and not Grei- 

 hound, q. Grecian hound, quod primiim fuerit in usu inter Gracos). A splendid 

 representation of this most elegant of the canine race is engraven by Pere Montfau- 

 con, Tom. in. pi. 50. f. 5. from the Arch of Constantino, from whose work it has 

 been again copied on stone to illustrate this treatise. For an account of the Scythian 

 and African horses, see notes on chap. xxni. and xxiv. 



