ON COUUSlN(; 



101 



generally from spiteful jealousy. These matters are not to be Chat. xil. 



made light of. 



In the winter season feed your dogs only once a day, * a 

 little before evening ; for the days are short, and the grey- 

 hounds are to be so managed, that if you need their services 

 for coursing till a late hour, they may be able to bear the 

 necessary fasting. But in summer it is right to give them a 

 little bread in addition, " that they may not be exhausted by 

 the length of the day ; and if thirsty, they will drink with 

 less detriment after having eaten. To thrust down a dog's 

 throat a piece of salted suet is also found beneficial. ' But if 



Chap. XIH. 



Feeding 



in winter and 



summer. 



1. Arrian has already spoken on tlie subject of feeding, as an indication of good 

 blood, in c. viii. 



" Adulti siccis vescanlur edulibus : pane videlicet et osbibus, et hoc fiat digestis 

 Iioris, ut concoctio peragatur, et potius famescaut paululum, quara non exactis hods 

 pascantur." 



It is occasionally necessary to administer food twice a day to delicate hounds : but 

 the more usual practice accords with the text. Gervase Markham, however, recom- 

 mends the courser to feed twice a day on his prescribed diet-bread, " to wit, halfe an 

 houre after sunne-rise, and halfe an houre before sun-set, when he comes from walk- 

 ing or ayring his dogge, and it will bring hiro to exceeding great strength of body 

 and purenesse of winde." — " Upon his coursing days you must by no means give him 

 any meat more than a white bread toast and butter, or a toast and oil," &c. 



Tardif, a French writer cited by Conrad Gesner, agrees with Arrian on the ■utility 

 of a second meal in summer : " Canis eestate frequentius quam hyeme cibandus est, 

 ut aestivis diebus longis et calidis durare possit. Infringatur ei panis in aquam. Si 

 tamen saepius quam par est cihetur, ventriculus ei subvertitur, lac aut panis lacte 

 madidus optime aiunt." 



2. &fpovs 5e ayadhv Koi &pTou 6\lyov Sovvai (/^(payelv — as a morning meal, a 

 breakfast. 



3. 'Xreap Tapixfv6fievov — salted suet or fat. "Xriap appears from Pollux, L. ii. 

 c. V. 3. to be the same as irifieXr), white adipose substance adherent to the mem- 

 branes of the abdomen and viscera of men and animals : but if Hesychius be correct 

 in his explanation of airoixaySaXia as (rreap eV ^ ris x^'P^^ airfjidrTOVJO 4v to7s Seiirvois' 

 $a\6vTis Se Tors Kvalv avaXvovres anb rwv Sfiirvwv, it must have possessed sapo- 

 naceous qualities of detergency ; for if it were pure fat, with Bocliart we might well ask 

 " unde abstergantur, qui inde absterguntur ? " For the distinctive difference between 



Blondi 

 Libellus, &c. 



Countrey Con- 

 tent. B. i. p. 51. 



p. 52. 



Tardivus 

 de Venatione. 



Hierozoicon 



L. II. c. LV. 



