132 ARRIAN 



Chap. XXV. As soon as the season arrives for taking out your puppies, 

 let them be first walked over such roads as are rough ; ^ 



^lian. de aypevriKhs airas avrhi fxev Xa^wv Oripiov T^Serat, koI /cexP^JTOi t^ &ypf «s HdKcf, fav 



a urd ninia . ^^^^^^^ (rvyxoopriari 6 Secnror-rjs : and a greater than Xenophon or vElian has declared 



A ■ . . |. that the curee, or quarry, is to tlie Spartan hound the object of his chase, ovSe rais 



Ethic. Nicom. oanuis toov XaywSiv ai Kvves x'"/"""''"'> o-Wa rp fipcucrei — Sti fiopav 'd^ovffiv. But 



Plutarch tells us that they will not touch the game, nor lap the blood of it, unless 



L. III. c. X. 



Plutarchi they kill it themselves ; while, in the other case, i^Sovrat StacnruvTes, Kal -rh aTjxa 



Utraque ani- ^^^^^^^^ i^poQiixws, &c. 

 raalia, &C. 



Gratu Ergo ubi plena suo rediit victoria fine 



Cvneg. vs. 246. t . j • . 



° In partem prajdee veniat conies, et sua norit 



Prajmia. Sic operi juvet inservisse benigno. 



Hoc ingens nierituni est : hffic ultima pahna trophffi. 



Onomast. L. v. Julius Pollux advises that puppies be well blooded, Iva irpoffedi^aivTai ry Kvvrjye- 



C. VI. 



TiKr} Tpo<pfj, 



Albi Dianae Atque in parva secant spoliatum segmina corpus, 



L,eporiciaffi Adduatque infectum leporino sanguine panem. 



MS. Twety and " Ye shal gif yo^ houndys the bowellis boyled w*". breed, and it is callyd reward 

 • for cause that it is etyn on the erthe aud not on the skyn." 



/Hayster of " Goodnesse of greyhoundes cometh of ryght corage and of the good nature of her 

 f I fi9 * ^^'^^'^ ^'"^ modir, and also men may wel helpe to make hem good in the encharmyng 

 of hem with other good greihoundes and feede hem wel in the beest that he taketh." 

 Countrey Con- " In coursing," says Markham, " you shall observe two things, bloud and labour ; 

 tent. ±>. I. p. 51. bloud, which is a hartening and animating of your dogge to delight in the pleasure, 

 when he findes the reward of his paines taking ; for if a dog course continually, and 

 never kill, the sport will growe yrksome to him, and therefore, now and then, give 

 him such advantage that he may kill the hare — then labour, which is contrary to 

 killing ; for in it you must give the hare all indifferent advantage, both by lawe and 

 otherwise, whereby she may stand long before the dogge and make him shewe his 

 uttermost strength before he be able to reach her." 

 De Venat. 4. So Xenophon : ean Se koI, &vev tov evpiffKeii' rhv Xayic, ayadhv, &yeiP Tas Kvvas 



^' '^* ils TO rpoxea* Koi yap fviroSes yiyvovrai, Kal ra (Tuifiara Siawoyovaai iv T6voiS roiovTOis 



oxpeXovvrai, 



Natalis Comes ^^'^ nulla hinc merces sequitur te digna laborum 



de Venatione. In loca dura canes si duxeris, aspera montis 



Per juga sylvestri populo vix pervia sicpe. 



