ON (OLHSINCi 



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where she hkes, and the clog pursues ; she shifts lier course,'' Chap. XVII. 

 throws iiini ofi", and darts forward ; and if thrown out, the dog- 

 is wide of the hare, and must again stretch away after her 

 a-head, and recover what he has lost of the course by over- 

 shoot inii himself. 



it strikes us as probable that be was a practical courser, " Apollinis et Dianae utrius- 

 que sectator," and derived his imagery from experience in the field. To the tales of 

 " Cepbalus and his greyhound Lselups," and of " Daphne in Laurum " with its cited 

 accompaniment, we may add much of the poetical ornament of Arethusa's plaintive 

 and terrified flight from thelastfiil Aipheus, 



Sic ego currebam ; sic me ferus ille premebat, ...ficc. 



in which the classic courser will discover many allusions to his favourite sport ; 



Metamorpli 

 L. V. 604. 



Nee me velocior ille, 

 Sed tolerare diu cursus ego viribus irapar 

 Non poterani : longi patiens eiat ille laboris. 

 Per tamen et campos, per opertos arbore montes, 

 Saxa quoque et rupes, et quii via nulla, cucuni. 

 Sol erat a tergo: vidi prajcedere longam 

 Ante pedes uiubram : nisi si timer ilia videbat. 

 Sed certe sonituque pedum terrebar; et ingens 

 Crinales vittas afflabat anhelitus oris. 



Ejiisdem 

 V. 609. 



And when the afFriglited nymph is rescued by the interposition of a cloud from her 

 pursuer's grasp, and hears the cry " lo Aretiiusa, lo Arethusa," the poet compares 

 her to a hare in a brake under biii)ilar terror. 



Lepori, qui vepre latens hostilia cernit 

 Ora canura, nullosque audetdare corpore raotus: 



Ejusdem 

 V. (i27. 



as if the chase of this little animal liad supplied him with the outline of his picture. 



3. 'O /ifv i^fXi^as rhv SpSfiov &c. So yElian, Sp6fji.ov Se eva Koi l6vi> oh du, Sevpo 

 Se KOI e/C€?(Te irapaKXlvet, Koi e'leXiTrej t?7 koI t^, iKTrKi]TTWv tovs Kvvas koI wkotuv. 



4. Apoilonius Rhodius has well expressed the Kvvis SeSarjixei/ot &yor]s straining 

 after the game with open jaws ; 



De Naturii 



Animal. 



L. XIII. c. 14. 



TviOhi/ 5e Tnai.v6ft.ivoi. /xiroiriffOtv 

 &icpT]^iv •yivvitrai ixa.Tr\v apd^Tjaav uSovras. 

 P 



Argonaut. 

 L. H. 2W). 



