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ARRIAN 



Chap. XVII. consciousness of his presence, and of their brilliant running not 

 escaping his notice, as an encouragement and reward for their 

 exertions. 



There is no objection to your cheering your hound as often 

 as you like in his first course ; but in his second or third, 

 when it is probable that he is fagged, I think it wrong to cheer 

 him very often by name, lest from his ardour, and desire of 

 pleasing his master, he exert himself beyond his strength, and 

 suffer some inward rupture ; an accident which has been fatal 

 to many a high-bred greyhound. But he should be allowed to 

 slacken his running as he chooses. For the contest is by no 

 means equal between the hare and greyhound : - the hare runs 



But Arrian means more than is expressed in either of these passages : by ovo/xacrT] 

 4iTi\4yitv we are to understand speaking to, and cheering the hounds by name ; as in 

 the following cbaj)ter — evye Si Ktppa, eHye S> B6i/vu, koXus ye S> 'Op/xr] — 



2. 6 a7aiv Xaywu) koX kvvI — accurately and beautifully described in the Ovidian 

 simile ; 



Metamorph. 

 L. I. 533. 



Ut canis in vacuo leporem cum Gallicus arvo 

 Vidit ; et hicjjrffidam pedibus petit, ille salutem 

 Alter inhaesuro similis, jam jamque tenere 

 Sperat, et extento stringit vestigia rostro ; 

 Alter in ambiguo est, an sit depretisus, et ipsis 

 Morsibus eripitur ; tangentiaque era relinquit. 



and in the fable of Cephalus and Procris, the Teumesian fox being substituted for the 

 hare ; 



Metamorph. 

 L. vn.781. 



Tollor eo capioque novi spectacula cursus : 

 Qua modo deprendi, modo se subducere ab ipso 

 Vulnere visa fera est : nee limite callida recto, 

 In spatiumque fugit ; sed decipit ora sequentis, 

 Et redit in gyrum, ne sit suus impetus hosti. 

 Imminet hie sequiturque parem : similisque tenenti 

 Non tenet, et vacuos exercet in aiira morsus. 



When reading these and other splendid fables of this poet, and his similes illustrative 

 of terror and rapidity of flight, and eagerness of pursuit, in the parties represented, 



