ON COURSING. 93 



When a dog is sick, administer the broth of fat meat to Chap. VIII. 

 him, or having roasted a bullock's liver over some hot coals, 

 and rubbed it abroad, sprinkle it like flour into the broth. ^ 

 This is good also for puppies to strengthen their limbs, when 

 they are first weaned from milk. ^ But milk is the best food 

 for the support of puppies till the ninth month, and even 

 longer ; and is serviceable to the sick and delicate, both as 

 drink and aliment. Fasting too is beneficial to a sick dog. '' 



There is nothing Uke a soft and warm bed for greyhounds ; Chap. ix. 

 but it is best for them to sleep with men : — as they become t^^e^K^nd" 



In panem coquit ille, cavo hie ia robore cald^ 

 Digerit in pultem, lambendaque coena paratur. 

 Nee durum sit sajpe tibi, qu^ luee quietem 

 Artemidi debes, illos reereare calenti 

 Jure, minutatim scissis e vilibus extis : 

 Currentem, ilignisve bibant in vasibus undam. 



5. Kanoiffri Se iiM^aWfiv ^ v5a>p, &c. Arrian says nothing on the treatment of 

 canine disease beyond this bint on diet. 



6. The Cynosophium substitutes the lungs for the liver of a bullock, as nutriment 

 for puppies, when deprived of milk — et yd\a fii) exets. See Cynosoph. p. 271. 



On the feeding of puppies Nemesian observes, that it should be regulated by the 

 season of the year, atmospherie temperature, &c, 



Interdumque eibo Cererem eum iacte ministra, Cynegeticua 



Fortibus ut suecis teneras eomplere medullas ^* 1"1* 



Fossint, et validas jam tune promittere vires : 



hut during the intense heat of summer the puppies are to be kept on lighter food, 

 and then again on meal and whey, 



Tunc rursus miscere sero Cerealia dona Ejusdera 



Conveniet, fortemque dari de frugibus escara. ''^' I "2. 



7. 'AyaOhv Se /col t] aciTia Kanvovcrri. Arrian probably wrote rp aarLrla Kafivova-ri : 



" prodest etiam lac quando cibi fastidio laborat canis." The remedy suggested by 



Demetrius of Constantinople for anorexis, " bad feeding," I should consider more 



likely to increase, than cure the disease ; iav avoptKr^ kvuv, Kdvptav avOpuiriav 5j5ou Cynosoph. 

 ^ - ^ ' p. 267. 



