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Chap. XXIII. you choose, spear him at close quarters as if enfettered, 7 or 

 throw a noose over his neck/ and lead him away alive. 



Chap. XXIV. In Africa there is a mode of coursing on Libyan horses,* 



Cou/sinTof called iVomades, on which the sportsmen, mounted, catch not 



Wild Asses, only red and roe deer," (for these are taken with little effort, 



and the horses are not esteemed good in consequence,^) but also 



Virgil. Georg. 

 L. III. V. 374. 



Velocem quandoque fuga praevertere cervum, 

 Et premere immanes animis optavimus apros. 



7. "E^fffTiv ijSri, €1 ixiv ^oiXoio, aKovriaai e77i50€»' ois ireTreSrifUfvriv, 



Cominus obtruncat ferro, graviterque rudentes 

 Casduat, et magno laeti clamore reportant. 



Xenophon gives a full description of the mode of ensnaring deer in a variety of 

 trap called irodocrTpd^r], and adds : aXiffKovrai 8e Koi &vev 7roSocrTpd$7]s SiwKSfiivai, 

 Htuv ^ 7) wpa Septv^, airayopevovcri yap atpdSpa, SxTTe effrwcai aKovri^ovTat, 



Oppian. Cyneg. 

 IV. 54. 



^vvhu aKovrl^eiu 5e koI avrla To^d^ecrdczL 

 6ripa.s apeioTepo'js. 



De Nat. Anim. 

 L. II. c. II. 



8. Bpdxov — a noose-rope. Such ropes were generally used by rude nations in 

 batlle as well as the chase. For a clever representation of this mode of catching 

 deer, see the Venationes Ferarum of Stradanus and Galle, and the accompanying 

 quatrain of Kilian Dufflseus. 



1. /Elian mentions these horses in his second book of Animal History: Hkkttoi 

 fjLiv fijiv 'iiTiyaiv Kajxa/Tov 5e 57j Ti aiaOourai ovBtv KfVTol Se, Kai ovk ivcrapKOi, iirm]- 

 Seioi ye fiyjv Koi (pepeiu 6\iyo>piav 5e<xir6Tou eiaiv : — and Oppian in his first Cynegetic : 



Cyncg. I. 

 V. 289. 



Cyneg. ii. 

 V. 293. 



Cyneg. ii. 

 V. 315. 



Mavpuv S' ai6\a ^v\a iroXv irpocpepovatv avavruv 

 a/xcpl dpSfiovs ravaovs re, Kal ajxcpl nSvovs a\iyfivovs' 

 Kol Aifivis ixeja rovs SoAix^c 5p6fj.oy iKTf\eov(nv. 



2. 'E\d<povs ^ SopKdSas. I take 4\d(pos to be the red deer, the cervus elaphus of 

 naturalists ; and 56pKas the roe deer, cervus capreolus, the chevreuil of France. To 

 these the poet of Anazarbus adds the fallow deer, under the name of eiipvKepu- 



T€S. 



3. From hence it would appear that it was no great exploit to take a red or roe 

 deer, iu Arrian's opinion ; but the latter was deemed very fleet by the last-cited poet, 



