ON COUUSING. 



11 



he was ignorant of greyhounds, if even the capture of a hare Chap. XVI. 

 appeared to him a grand sight. 



I ain aware, (even if my instructions were opposed to it), 

 how strong the inducement is to halloo, when following a 

 course, and that even a dumb man might break forth, as is 

 related of the son of Croesus. ^^ 



It is proper sometimes to speak to the greyhounds ; for 

 they are pleased at hearing their master's voice, ^ and have the greyhounds. 



CriAp. XVII. 

 Clieering 



and yet he almost immediately palliates Xenophon's contrary sentiments, and excuses 

 them on account of his ignorance of the Celtic greyhound. 



11. See Herodot. L. i. sect. 85. 6 Se irots ovtos 6 &(p(iiuos, ws elSe eVioj'Ta Thv Tlep- 

 (Tr]v, inrh Seouy re koI kukov e^prj^e (pooi/rif elire 5e, "nvdpceTre, fii] KTt7vf Kpolffov. The 

 tale of the father of history is somewhat differently told by Solinus : — Atys, filius regis, 

 rautus ad id locorum, in vocera erupit vi timoris : exclamasse enini dicitur : " Parce 

 patri meo, Cyre, et hominem te esse, vel casihus disce nostris." 



1. Xenophon de Venat. c. VI, 9. avaPoau edye, eSye S> Kvves, e-ire(T0e Si KvvfS. He 

 gives a different cheer at different parts of the chase. Pollux explains the whistling 

 halloo by the significant verb i-iruri^ai — jubilationibus solitis canes cohortari et feris 

 imraittere — 



Clio. 



C, J. Solini 



Polyhistor. 



c. I. 



At comites rabidura solitis hortatibus agmen 

 Ignari instigant. 



Ovid. Metam, 

 L. Ill, 



So Venus in pursuit of her beloved Adonis, 



Per juga, per silvas, dumosaque saxa vagatur 

 Nuda genu, vestem ritu succincta Dianas ; 

 Hortaiurque canes, &c. 



Ovid. Metara. 

 L. X. 53.5. 



Incipiam captare feras, et reddere pinu 

 Cornua, et audaces ipse raonere canes. 



Nemesian approaches nearer to the text, in his probable allusion to the same variety 

 of sound ; 



Propert. L. ii. 



EI. XVIII. ad 



Cynthiani. 



Necnon consuetaj norint hortamina vocis, 



Seu cursus revocent, jubeant seu tendere cursus. 



Cyneget. 

 v. 196. 



