11& ARRIAN 



Chap. xvil. the running for her hfe, too, takes away all sense of diffi- 

 culties. 



Chap. XVIII. When the greyhound has caught the hare, or been otherwise 

 Praising, &c. victorious in the course,^ you should dismount from your horse, 

 pat him with your hand and praise him, kissing his head, and 

 stroking his ears, and speaking to him by name — " Well done, 

 Cirras !"2— " Well done, Bonnas !"3— " Bravo, my Horme !"* 

 — calling each hound by his name ; for, like men of generous 

 spirit, they love to be praised : ^ and the dog, if not quite tired 

 out, will come up with joy to caress you. At this time, it is a 

 good sign for him to roll himself on the ground, as we see 

 horses do ; ^ for it shows that he is not done up with the 

 course, and, at the same time, rolling refreshes him. 



hara. " A. S. hara videtur esse ab har, pilus ; quoniam, ut est apud Plinium, ' vil- 

 losissimum animalium lepus.' " 



1. Let him be made to feel in the words of Oviil, 



non tam 

 Turpe fuit vinci, quain contendisse decorum. 



It is a great point to encourage a young hound, whether he kill or not. 



Plutarch remarks in his treatise on the Comparative Instinct of Land and VVater 

 Animals, that the Canes Venatici, generally, tear tlieir game and lick up the blood 

 greedily, when they kill it themselves ; but if the animal, of which they are in pur- 

 suit, expire from exhaustion, before they reach it, they merely wag their tails, and do 

 not lacerate it ; showing thereby that the contest was not for the flesh of the animal, 

 but rather for the glory of victory. 



2. Ki^^a — derived probably from the red colour of the dog. 



3. BtJwa — the derivation of this canine name is unknown to me. 



4. 'Opfii) — Arriau's own much-valued hound: to the same kennel perhaps belonged 

 Cirras and Bonnas. 



5. eoiKe Se eX*"" ''"' '''''' ^'^OTfjuias eV tavTw (fwffiKTJs" ;U7) jap SeTffSai Kpfuv, aA\i 

 Vj'.Jian. oe 



Nat. Animal. v'lKrjs epav. 



L. VIII. c. II. " Trahimur omnes laudis studio," says Cicero, " et optiraus quisque maxime 



gloria ducitur." 



G. Pliny also makes the same remark, " Canes a cursu volutatio juvat, ut veterina 



a jugo." 



