ON COURSING. 



15f) 



according to the amount of the sum : and then, after having 

 sacrificed, and presented the first-offerings of their victims to 

 the Goddess of the chase,^ according to their respective rites, 

 they give themselves up, with their hounds, to indulgence and 

 recreation,*^' — crowning the latter on this day with garlands," 



CirAP. 

 XXXIII. 



ara castis 

 Vincta verbenis avet immolato 

 Spargier agno. 



Tlie kid of the Celtic hunters is mentioned in the celebration of Diana's riles by 

 Gratius ; see note 10. 



9. Tuv Updwu airap^diieyot ry 'Ayporepa. The first-fruits of the spoil were offered 

 up to Diana Venatrix, (see c. xxxii. n. 8.,) as well as the purchased sacrificial 

 victims. We are told by Plutarch that it was customary to consecrate the horns of 

 the stag to the goddess, and to affix them to her temple j a quiver, too, with bow and 

 arrows, and a canis venaticus, were commonly added. 



Tibi sEepe, Diana, 

 Maenalios arcus, venatricesque pharetras 

 Suspendit, puerile decus. 



See Symmach. Epist. L. v. Ep. 68. and Pitisci Lexicon Antiquitatum. 



10. Evuxovinai avrol re ko2 ot Kvves. 



Carminum 

 L. IV. c. XI. 



Claudian. 



De Consul. 



Honor. L. iv. 



159. 



Idcirco aeriis molimur compita lucis 

 Spicatasque faces (sacrum) ad nemora alta Dianse 

 Sistimus, et solito catuli velantur honore ; 

 Ipsaque per flores medio in discrimine luci 

 Stravere arma, sacris et pace vacantia fest&. 

 Tum cadus, et viridi fumantia liba feretro 

 Praeveniunt, tener^que extrudens comua fronte 

 Hoedus, et ad ramos etiamnum haerentia poma, 

 Lustralis de more sacri, quo tota juventus 

 Lustraturque Deee, proque anno reddit honorem. 

 Ergo irapetrato respondet multa favore 

 Ad partes qu^ poscis opem, seu vincere siivas, 

 Seu tibi fatorum labes exire minasque 

 Cura prior, tua magna fides tutelaque Virgo. 



Gratii Cyneget. 

 483. 



To the hunting jubilations of our early annals (when Dian's revels were scarce 

 exploded) John of Salisbury alludes in his Policraticus : " Si vero clariore preedil, 

 cervo forte vel apro, venantium labor effulserit, fit plausus intolerabilis, exultant 



De Nugis 

 Curialium 

 L. I. c. IV. 



