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ARRIAN 



Chap. VII. mildly, they pay no attention to you ; — if threateningly, they 

 keep aloof from fear. 



For when a greyhound has had his gallop, and has run 

 about, he ought to come back to his keeper, even without a 

 call,^ — showing that he is under command at will ; but, if the 

 keeper does not choose to take him up, let him again bound 

 away, and again return. Such dogs are well broken in as, at 

 the voice of their keeper, crouch before him ; ''' not from fear, 

 but regard and respect for their feeder, cowering like the 

 worshippers ^ of the Great King. ^ It is no good sign for a 

 hound to stand still, when let out of couples on an open 



Xenophon. 

 Memorabil. 

 L. IV. c. I. 



De Mulabus 

 Gailicis. 



portant, operating on a good subject. Twv kvvwv, says Socrates, ruv fiKpyea-TaTCDv, 

 ^iXoirSpuv re ovcru'v, Kal iinOiTtKuiv to7s Br^piois, ras ixlv KaXws ax^ficras, apiaras 

 yCyveadat irphs tos 6i}pas, koI xpVO'^f^<>>^o-'''0'^' avaydyovs 5e yiyvojxivas, ixa/raioxis re 

 Koi (laviciidets Kal SvffireidecrTdTas. 



6. The canes Gallic! should resemble the Gallic raules of Claudian's epigram, 



Exuta; laqueis, sub ditione tamen. 



7. TiroKaTaKXivovTai, jut; virh Seovs, aWa <^i,\o(ppovov(ievai, &c. 



Paradise Lost. 

 B. VIII. 351. 



Cowering low 

 With blandishment. 



Spelmau's 



Translation of 



Xenophon's 



Anabasis. 



Note. 



The greyhound's posture is peculiarly graceful, when fondly crouching before his 

 master or keeper ; and may be well likened to the Tairiiv6ry]s (Arr. Exped. Alex. 

 L. IV. c. XI.) of the Persian, performing his salaam to the King of kings. 



8. Ot irpoffKvvovvTis. From what Callisthenes says to Alexander (Arrian. Exped. 

 Alexand. L. iv. c. xi.) it appears that Cyrus, the founder of the Persian empire, was 

 the first person to whom adoration was paid on earth by his fellow-men ; and it was 

 continued and enjoined to his successors, as a political homage. The ordinary com- 

 pliments of the modern Greeks are called vpoffKvvrifiaTa. See Arrian's account of 

 the irpo(TKvvr]cns, loco citato; and Xenophon, Cyropaedia, L. viii. for the first occasion 

 of it, irpdadiv 5e VlepcTwv ovSels Kvpov •KpoaiKvvei, 



9. The king of Persia was called fieyas fiaatXevs, according to Suidas, Sia t5 

 ■KXeiovi Swdfiet XP^<''^«' ''"§ nepcrjKT?" ro7s 5e ^AAois irpoffeTiBeffav kcu tSiv apxcfieyup 

 6v6ixaTa, oiov AaKESaijuociwi', MaKtScJj'on'. The title still exists in " Le Grand 

 Seigneur." 



