ON COUKSINf;. 



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dogs injured, their horses lamed,- and themselves disap- x\x\\' 

 pointed. -3 



And of this, Homer gives evidence in his poem.^ Teucer, Chap. xxxv. 

 he says, the best bowman of the Greeks, in the archery-contest exampk-s from 



Homer. 



22. KoJ yap koi ol /ewes fi\dinovTai, k.t. A. All that Arrian lierc anticipates as a 

 consequence of neglect of the rural deities, Savary of Caen, iu bitterness of heart, 

 invokes on the ill-fated heads of the hrelhren of the leash ; whom he designates as 

 enamoured of the savage pugnacity of the bull-dog greyhound — ivitli which alone, 

 the wolf-greyhound of his country, this poet was acquainted. Great as may have 

 been his love of the harrier's chase, and great his admiration of its followers, whom 

 he calls Dian's legitimate worshippers, I cannot conceive him conversant with the 

 genuine pastime of his Celtic ancestry, nor with the kvoov rij aAridela yivvaws of 

 Arrian, when he wrote the i'ollowing virulent anathema : 



C. XXMII. 



Talia legitimosnon infortunia tangant 

 Cultores, Diana, tuos : inhonora Laconis 

 Sed quoscunque juvat feritas truculenta Rlolossi, 

 Sola quibus ca;des, si qua est in caede voluptas, 

 Illorum paribus turbentur gaudia causis. 

 Mulcta suppliciis cor insatiabile prEedre. 

 Plecte viros, extingue canes, rabiemque feroceni 

 InstilU, dominus catulis odiosus et ipsis, 

 Exsequet falsum veris Actaeona posnis. 

 Et qui parlicipes (pigeat licet ista precari) 

 Disrumpanlur equi, domini plectantur in illis ! 



Album Diana; 



LeporicidiB. 



L. V. 



23. .Elian tells us there is a temple of Diana in an isle of the Red Sea called /Elian, de 



Icarus, abounding with goats, roe-deer, and hares, which a sportsman niav catch, if Natura Animal, 



" L. XI. c. 9. 



the goddess be duly petitioned ; but if not, he is not only unsuccessful in his sport, 



but punished for the transgression — iav 5e /ur; alr^ar), ovt^ alpel, Koi Sl5uai 5i/cos, &s 



aWoL \iyov(jiv. 



1. "Ofi-ripos iv TJj irotricrei, Arrian alludes to the contest for the prize of arclierj', at 



the ganies celebrated by Achilles on the occasion of the funeral of his friend Patro- 



clus. I give Pope's translation of the passage : 



To the tall top a milk-white dove they tie. 

 The trembling mark at which their arrows fly. 

 "Whose weapon strikes yon fluttHriiig bird, shall bear 

 These two-edged axes, terrible in war; 



Iliad B. XXIII. 

 vs. 1020. 



