120 ARRIAN 



Chap. XXI. The Celts sometimes course with a mixture of sagacious and 

 Coursing with swift-footed houuds:^ and while the doo;s of scent are tryino-, 



sagacious and ' ^ JO' 



swift hounds 

 together. 



fBiapstfr of 1. This method of coursing was practised in England in the da^s of Edmund De 



c. XXXV Langley (A. D. 1380). From the instructions which he gives relative to it, it 



fol. 99. appears that the gre^^hounds were placed, as amongst the Celts, on the outside of the 



covert. So also in the beautiful poetry of Scott : 



Marniion. And foresters in greenwood trim 



Inlroduction to L^^j -^ ^,,^ j^ ,^ j, gazehounds grim, 



Canto 11. . b b , 



Attentive as the brachet's bay 



From the dark covert drove the prey 

 To slip them as he drove away. 

 The startled quarry bounds amain, 

 As fast the gallant greyhounds strain. 



De Canibus et " ^"^ autem vidimus," says Blondus, " venantes in capiendis leporibus hunc 

 \ enatione modum servare insidiandi. Divisi ac sparsi veuatores per inculta frequentiiis quain 

 per culta, arte quadam incedunt laqueis canem leporariura detinentes : spineta et 

 sentes, sive dumeta, saltusve potiiis celebranles quam nemora. Nonnunquam etiam 

 praemittunt odorum canem qui e latebris pellat timidum leporem, post quem e laqueis 

 mittunt canem fugacem, altis clamoribus persequentes, qui sunt exhortationes fuga- 

 cium canum." 



U. Aldrovand. " In montosis locis (agri Bononiensis) ob rubetorum frequentiam, canibus saga- 



de yuad. UigU. ciijug 3(j lepores excitandos utuntur, deinde visis leporibus canes leporarios solvunt," 

 \ ivip. I/. II. r r ' 



^ &c. 



The classic poet of Barga, although we look in vain for a description of the hare- 

 course throughout his varied and copious Cyncgeticon, has left us the following 

 counterpart in the machinery of the fox-chase with swift-footed hounds : 



P. Angel. Barg. Interea juvenes qua sunt asperrima campi 



Cyneg. L. vi. Dumeta, et spinis clivus consurgit acutis, 



Obsedere vias, alii qua mane tepenti 

 Flamine in adversos ^uras fert Eurus odoras, 

 Veloces tenuere canes : turbaraquc sagacem 

 Immisere, premant patulis, qu<e naribus hostem 

 Obscenam, et dumis sese occultare parantein, 

 Conantemque animam tristi subducere letho. 

 Quam postquam certo latratu ursere propinquain, 

 Solvuntur canibus curracia vincla Lacainis : 



