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ARRIAN 



Chap. IX. must be referred the very offensive and pungent stench on 

 entering a kennel where many hounds are confined together. 



Chap. X. Rubbing the whole body is of great service to the grey- 



ing own. i^Qyj^^i . I j^jj jggg ^i^g^jj ^Q ^|-^g horse. - For it is conducive to 

 the firmness and strength of his limbs — renders his hair soft, 

 and skin shining, ^ and cleanses it from all foulness. 



Album Dianas 

 Leporicidse. 

 L. VI. p. 79. 



ilHagstcr of 

 ffiame. c xix. 



fol. 70. 



c. xiiT. fol. 56. 



Cyneget. 

 V. 294. 



Altera latrantum pestis, commercia quee per 

 Vicina insinuans sese, diffunditur agmen 

 In totum, tenerosque brevi depascitur artus, 

 Deforrais scabies, hoc potu ventre soluto, 

 Victa fugit, si vena die sit aperta sequenti : 

 Atque malum bini post intervalla diei, 

 Toto, quod docuit FuUoxius, unguine cures. 



De Langley's instructions to the kennel-man are excellent : " I wyll hym lerue 

 that onys in the day he voyde the kenel and make it al clene, and remeve her strawe, 

 and putt agayn ffressh new straw, a greet dele and ryght thikke ; and ther as he ieith 

 it the houudes shall lye, and the place there as thei shuld lye shuld be made of tree 

 a foot hie fro the erthe, and than the strawe should be leide upon, bi cause that the 

 moystnesse of the erthe shuld not make hem niorfound, ne engender other siknesse 

 bi the which thei myght be the wors for huntyng," &c. And before, he says : 

 " The skabbe cometh to hem whan thei abiden in her kenel to longe and gon not on 

 huntyng, or ellis her litter and couche is unclene kept, or ellis the strawe is not 

 remevid and hur water not fressh ; and shortly the hound is unclene, I hold, and evel 

 kept or long waterles, havyn comoniy this maraewe." 



1. The courser will not fail to observe Arrian's intimate knowledge and experience 

 of his subject. The minute instructions communicated in this chapter on rubbing 

 and dressing the Celtic bound, " in cute curand^," prove the great care paid by 

 ancient coursers to the condition of the skin in running animals ; without which, 

 indeed, no greyhound can compete with an upland champaign hare. 



2. The effect of friction with the hand, or hair-cloth, or flesh-brush, is farther 

 illustrated by Nemesian, on grooming the horse : 



Pulvere quinetiam puras secernere fruges 



Cura sit, atque toros manibus percurrere equorum, 



Gaudeat ut plausu sonipes, laetumque relaxet 



Corpus, et altores rapiat per viscera succos. 



Id curent famuli, comitumque aniraosa juventus. 



3. Ti)v Tpfx« jua^Oaf^" ipyd^fTai, &c. This is partially effected in modern days 



