ON ("OUHSING. 



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the rein, press these wild asses so closely in })ursuit, that at Chap. XXIV. 

 last they throw a noose around their necks and lead them away 

 quite subdued. s^ 



Such arc the methods of coursing adopted by those who have Comparison of 

 fleet hounds and horses : they neither ensnare the animals with Coursmg. 

 toils, nets, or springes j^*' nor employ, in short, any other tricks 

 or wily inventions, but contend with them in a straight-forward 

 trial of speed. " And to me, the two spectacles appear nowise 



Quemque coloratus Mazax deserta per arva 

 Pavit, et assiduos docuit^tolerare labores. 

 Nee pigcat quod turpe caput, deformis et alvus 

 Est oUis, quodque infrenes, quod liber uterque, 

 Quodque jubis pronos cervix diverberet armos. 

 Nam flecti facilis, lascivaque colla secutus 

 Paret ia obsequium lent* moderamiue virgs. 

 Verbera sunt^praecepta fuga3, sunt verbera freni. 

 Quin et proraissi spatiosa per ajquora campi 

 Cursibus acquirunt commoto sanguine vires, 

 Paulatimque avidos comites post terga relinquunt. 



9. The same fact is related by iElian, in his Natural History of Animals, L. xiv. 

 c. 10. ; and Beckman (Hist, of Inventions, Vol. iv. p. 292.) observes, on the autho- 

 rity of Vancouver, tbat the ISpSxos, or noose-rope, is still employed by the Hunga- 

 rians, for the subjugation of wild horses. 



10. See these instruments of predatory hunting described in the early part of the 

 Appendix, and accurately represented in the spirited engravings of the " Venationes 

 Ferarum " of Stradanus and Galle. The metrical skill of A. C. Kilian Duffljeus, the 

 poet of the annexed quatrains, is not commensurate with that of the engraver. 



11. 'Ek tov eiiOeos 5iayui'i^6iJ.evoi, Many are the instances recorded in which the 

 agency of the hound of chase was despised by " the light-footed sons of Chiron's 

 school." The heroes and heroines of old were all-sufBcient for the capture of the 

 fleetest animals of the forest and plain. This was indeed coursing in good earnest, 

 and is well illustrated by the simile of tiie text. In this way Diana furnished her 

 chariot with deer, her ■npuTdypiov, the swiftest beasts of draught — 



iricrvpas 8' e'\ej SiKa deovffa, 



v6a<pi KvvoBpoixiijs, 'lua roi Qobv apjxa (pepwai. 



In this way, the son of Peleus arrested the attention of her sylvan ladyship and the 

 goddess Pallas, 



R 



Nemesian. 

 Cyneg. vs. 201. 



Callimach. 



H. in Dian. 



vs. 105. 



