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be well set, and not loose-limbed, you may let go a hare from Cuap. xxv. 



your hand before her, in an open field, a month earlier than 



this, starting the pup close to the hare, that she may enjoy 



the sight of her game, and, by seeing it quite close, may work 



with eaoerness.^ But presently slip another good dog to the 



hare, that the puppy may not suffer by too long a course, nor 



flag from over-fatigue ; and the second dog turning the hare 



with ease again and again, will drive her into the puppy's 



mouth, when the latter should be allowed to tear her with her 



teeth till she has killed her.'* 



Nemesian. 

 Cyneget. 

 vs. 18G. 



3. lie recommends a later period for entering dog-puppies ; see the next Chapter. 

 Nemesian makes no distinction between the dog and bitch on this point : 



Jam cum bis denos Phoebe reparaverit ortus, 



Incipe non longo catulos producere cursu ; 



Sed parvfe vailis spatio, septove novali. 



His leporem praemitte manu, non viribus a-quis, 



Nee cursus virtute parem ; sed tarda trahentem 



Membra ; queant jam nunc faciles ut eumere praedas. 



Nee seniel indulge catulis moderamine cursus ; 



Sed donee validos etiam praivertere suescant, 



Exerceto diu, venandi munere cogens 



Discere, et emerites laudera virtutis aniare. 



Necnon consuetaj norint bortamina vocis. 



Sen cursus revocent, jiibeaiit seu tendere cursus, 



Quinetiam docti victam contingere pra^dam, 



Exanimare velint tantum, non carpere sutnptam. 



Less diiTiise than the Carthaginian poet, the Veronese physician enters his " catu- 

 ius venaticus" in the following lines of his Alcou, without specifying his age : 



mi igitur plenis ubi nondum viribus setas 



Accessit, parvum cursu conscendere collem 



Et ruoUi assuescant sese demittere clivo. 



nine tenerum leporem, vel crura infirnia trahentem 



Sectari capream, et facilem pra?currere can)pum 



Incipiat, verbisque viri parere morantis. 



4. ' AKiffKofxii/ou 5e tov \ayw, says the elder Xenophon, Si56vat avTois avappriyvvvai. Dc Venat. 

 Every sportsman is fully aware of the importance of blooding young hounds : kvwv c. vu. 



Fracastorii 

 A Icon. 



