ON COUUSING. 133 



for this exercise is conducive to forming and strengthening their Chav. xxv. 

 feet. Then station the man who leads them upon a conspi- 

 cuous and elevated spot, and be sure that he does not slip a 

 puppy when the hare has got much a-head, and is out of 

 sight ; (notwithstanding the elder Xenophon advises it in regard 

 to dogs that are to be practised at running on scent ; ^) for if 

 you slip a greyhound puppy out of sight of her game, she 

 runs wide, and jumps about, and is beside herself and be- 

 wildered. And after she is full-grown, if a hare happen to 

 escape her, she is never at rest, neither returning to her 

 keeper, nor obeying his call, but, from eagerness for a course, 

 continuing to run about wildly, like a mad dog, after nothing. ^ 

 Let the man, then, that holds the puppy stand on such a spot 

 as 1 have stated, "^ concealed from view at the point where it is 

 most probable the tired hare ^ will come in the course of her 



Scilicet hinc ungues solida?, corpusque labori 

 Aplius est parvo, tnaguum quod pertulit ante ! 



" Wlian thei be at sojoume, men sbuld lede hem out every day a myle or ij upon ^ap^ttr 0( 



gravel, or upon right an hard pathe, bi a revere syde, bicause that her feet may be (JRainc. 



, „ c. xm. fol. 59. 



harder. 



5. Ilepl rwv els Ixviiav a<TKovfi4vuv kvvuv — Spartan hounds, Castorians and Foxites — 



with regard to wliich, Xenophon recommends that the hare should be out of sight j)e Venat. 



before they be allowed to follow her ; lest, from being too near their game, such as c. vii. 



are high-couraged and swift of foot might be injured by too much exertion in pursuit. 



It is unnecessary to observe that the elder Athenian's remarks are inappHcai)le to the 



courser's iiound, who runs entirely by the eye ; and the nearer he is slipped to the 



hare, if he be only just entered, the better. A hare will always beat a puppy ia his 



noviciate, unaided by an old and experienced hound. 



6. Vlaivofievy eoiKev. 



A.vaaa\eois 5' ijireir' KkeXoi Kva\v atcrcTouTes. AnoUon. Rhod. 



L. IV. vs. 139 J. 



7. He now gives in detail his instructions for entering greyhound puppies to their 



appointed game, in opposition to those of Xenophon's seventh chapter ; nor can the 

 most experienced courser add to them any thing worth knowing, nor the most igno- 

 ratit complain of their insufficiency. 



8. novovfj-evos 6 hayiis viroKafxtpas ti^h. To the same point sings the poet of 

 Barga : 



