ON COURSING. 147 



coursing, it is best to leave the whelps with their own mother, Chat-, xxx. 

 and not to put them under a foster-parent. ' For the growth is 



<lifferent, and productive of effects, beyond its physical nutriment, upon the innate 

 powers and propensities of the young animal supported by it : and yet such an opi- 

 nion is too much countenanced by naturalists to make us unliesitatingly condemn it 

 as destitute of all foundation. It was a favourite notion of ancient physiologists, and 

 many moral inferences were drawn from it by Galen and others. " Non frustra Noct. Attic, 

 credituni est," says A. Gellius, on the authority of the philosopher Favorinus, " sic- '-'• x". c. i. 

 uti valeat ad fingendas corporis atijue animi siinilitudines vis et natura serainis, non 

 secus ad eandera rem lactis quoque ingenia et proprietalcs valere ; neque in homini- 

 bus id solum, sed in pecudibus quoque animadversum," &c. Wherefore Sir Thomas 

 Elyot enjoins, when speaking of nutrication, "a nourse shoulde be of no servile TheGovernoiir. 

 condition, or vyce notable : for as some auncient writers do suppose, ofteniymes the 

 chylde sucketli the vyce of hys nouryse with the mylke of her pappe." See 

 Bratiiwait's English Gentleman, p. 94. 



13. I. c. n 



€1 5e vv roi irivvTi] (TKvKaKorpocpiTi iJLefie\r)Tai, Oppian.Cyneg. 



fiT] TTOT a.ixi\yeadai CKvAaKas veo0ri\ei fia^^ ' 



alywu, ^ TrpojSaTcoc, /xrjS' oiViSirjiri Kvvfcrcnv' 

 •^ yap Toi vudpoi re Kol ovriBavol fiapvdoiev. 



Nee unquam eos quorum generosani volumus indolem conservare, patiemur alienee Columel. de 

 nutricis uberibus educari ; quoniam semper et lac et spiriius maternus longe magis • • ^^ *'"• 

 ingenii atque incrementa corporis augent. 



4. KpaTKTTov iSv virh rfj Te/coutr??. — Arrian here copies his predecessor almost 

 verbatim ; but in addition to \herhyd\a ayaBhv koI rh irvevfia of the former, the latter De Venat. 

 adds Koi at irepiPoXal (piXai. The classic reader will remember the patlietic address '^' ^"• 



of Andromache in the Troades, 



S) veov vitayKaXio'iJ.a fnyrpl (pihraTov, Eurijiidis 



S, xpooThs r,Sb vvevfia ! Troad. vs. 7CC. 



It is true that a foster-mother may " cherish kind — an alien offspring," and 



" pleased" we may " behold her tenderness, and hospitable love," but instances are, 



I believe, most rare of gre^'hound puppies, suckled by alien dams of mongrel blood, 



repaying the courser for the trouble of rearing them. Tlav yap tc» reKhv Tpo<pr]V exet Piatonis 



" JVlenexenus. 



iiriTr\5iiau ui hv Tiicri : and it is iti vain that we make the unnatural attempt, at yhp 



Oepairelai at aWdrpiai ovk elalv av^ifioi, according to both Xenophons j whereas " les Encycloped. 



ieunes chiens, nourris par leur propre mere, seroient plus forts et mieux portans que 1 letlioilKiue. 

 ■^ ' . / , ^ Les Chasses. 



ceux qui sont nourris d'uu lait etranger." " When a bitch hath whelpes," says Tur- p_ j jq_ 



berville, " let a niastiffe bitch (une niatine, Fouilloux)give sucke to one halfe, and Booke of 



you shall find that they will never be so good as those which the damme did bring Hunting, &c. 



up." »'•"• 



