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Chap. XIV. bruise themselves in frost, ^ lose their nails, ^ lacerate the 

 soles of their feet, and if very high-couraged, break even the 

 bones of their toes against the frozen ground from running 

 with excessive eagerness. Whereas the hare is light, with 

 woolly and soft feet, "^ and trips along without injury in 

 frost. 



Savary 



Album Dianae, 



&c. L. III. 



p. 33. 



De Venat. 

 L.I. 



5. 'AiroKualovrai, (radendo vulnerare anoKvaifiv,) — a preferable reading to the con- 

 jectural one of Schneider, airoKaiovrai — founded on Xenoph, de Venat. c. viii. 2. a 

 passage scarce applicable to the Celtic hound. No wise Veltrarius would think of 

 coursing his greyhounds during severe frost. 



Cum fluidos gelida sisti torpedine rivos 

 Videris, extantesque pedi non cedere glebas, 

 Ne campis immitte canes : nam nulla laborura 

 Prsemia ; et avulsos vanis conatibus ungues 

 Saepe diii, melior para turmas clauda, dolebit. 



G. Against this havock from frost, Natalia Comes suggests a guard in the use of 

 shoes, so formed according to Ruscellius (Schol. in Nat. Com. L. i.) as to let the 

 nails pass through tlie calceamenta coriacea : 



Ast ubi jam Boreas invadit frigidus arva, 

 Et glacialis hyems currentia flumina sistit, 

 Arcendae a plantis concretae frigore crusts, 

 Atque armandus erit pes, ne mala frigora laedant, 

 Et tellus concreta gelu, spinicque rigentes. 



But should this guard be insufficient, or inapplicable, and the loss of a nai! ensue, the 

 poetical physician of Verona supplies a simple restorative : 



Fracastorii 

 Alcon. 



Martini 



Lexicon 



Philologicum. 



Quid ? taceam nimio cum decidit ungula cursu ? 

 Frangere namque juvat pallentis grana cumini 

 Dentibus, admotaque pedeni lenire saliv^ : 

 Incipientque novi subcrescere protlnus ungues." 



The Cynosophium of Demetrius gives its earlier sanction to the efficacy of this 

 remedy ; and yet it is probable that any of the gum-resins dissolved in spirit of wine 

 will be found more curative. 



7. Aaffus ex^i rovs ir6Sas Kal fut\6aKo{)S. So Oppian, 



ovS* WTOis SfiXois XaffioKvrjfuncri \ayuois, 



Lepus Saffiwovs vocatur, quod hirsutos habeat pedes. 



