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Chap. XXIV. akin : the former being like thievish depredation ; the latter, 

 like a battle fought out with main strength : the one class of 

 sportsmen resembling pirates in their clandestine attack, while 

 the other are as openly victorious as were the Athenians over 

 the Medes in the naval engagement at Artemisium, ^- or at 

 Salamis and Psyttalia, or again at Cyprus. 



Chap. XXV. 



Age and iDode 



of entering 

 bitch-puppies. 



As to the age at which greyhounds should begin coursing, * 

 you may take a bitch out after the eleventh month ; - or, if she 



Lee's Pindar. 

 Nem. Od. iii. 



Justin. H. 

 L. XXXVII. 



C. II. 



Descriptioa of 



Britaine. 



Books Thirde. 



c. 7. 



Pindar. Fragm. 



XL. p. 75. 



edit. Heyne. 



when, if we credit tales believed of old, 

 His speed subdued tlie bounding stag, liis spoil — 

 By bounds unaided and the treach'rous toil. 



Mithridates, in later days, was wont, during liis rustication, " feras cursu aut fugare, 

 aut persequi, cum quibusdam etiani viribus congredi." And in our own annals, 

 " King Henrye the fife," says Holinshed, " tliought it a mere scoffery to pursue 

 any fallow deare wyth bounds or greyhounds, but supposed byra selfe alwayes to 

 have done a sufficient acte, when he had tired them by his own travaile on foote, and 

 so kylled them wyth hys handes, in the upshot of that exercise and ende of liys 

 recreation." 



12. Tie pi 'ApTeixicriov. 



'66i TraiSes 'A07]vai- 

 (t)v ipdXovTO (paevvaif 

 KpTjTTiS' i\ev6fplas. 



Plato (\6yos ewiTd<f>ios) gives the first and principal honours (apiffrua) to the victors 

 of IMarathon — ra, Se Sevrtpua, to7s irepl 'ZaKafjuva koI iw' 'Apre/ncriV vavfj.ax'ho'ci<n Kal 

 viKTiaaffi. Artemisium was a northern promontory of the island of Euboea ; Psyttalia, 

 a small, rocky, and barren isle, otF the coast of Attica, and near to Salamis ; Cyprus, 

 an island of the Mediterranean Sea. The naval victories of Themistocles and Ciraon 

 are too well known to need any detail. 



1. Having taken a summary view of the different modes of coursing amongst the 

 Celts, and elsewhere, be now enters in detail into the treatment, initiation, &c. of 

 young hounds. 



2. The elder Xenophon mentions an earlier date for entering puppies — bitches at 

 eight months, dogs at ten months old : but he does not allude to greyhounds. Pollux 

 would introduce bitches at six months, and dogs at eight; Onomast. L. v. c. ix. 

 The courser will follow the example of his Bithynian predecessor, whose instructions, 

 indeed, are in exact accordance with modern practice. 



