ON COURSING. 



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hymns, ^* and to dedicate the first-fruits of the captured Chap, xxxv 

 game, i- as the conqueror does of the spoils of war. ^^ 



ferreil upon the worshippers, expressing, at the same time, a wish for their conti- 

 nuance. "T/xvoi iJ.ev fs Tovs 6eovs Troiovvrat, ewatvoi 5e es wOpwirovs, s?iy s Callisthenes, 

 in his splendid speech on the line of distinction to be drawn between divine and 

 human honours. 



12. ^Airapx^s rwv aXuTKOfuvaip avaridevai. The aTrapxal, or first-fruits of animal 

 sacrifices, were small pieces of flesh cut from every part of the beast, and offered to 

 the gods, (see Homer, passim) : but hunters, according to Pitiscus, dedicated to the 

 Goddess of the Chase the bead, horns, feet, skin, &c. of the slaughtered game; to -""t'^* rloman. 

 which custom Nisus alludes in bis invocation to Diana: 



Arrian. de 

 Exped, Alex. 

 L. IV. c. XI. 



Lexicon 



Si qua tuis unquam pro me pater Hyrtacus aris 

 Doraa tulit, si qua ipse meis venatibus auxi, 

 Suspendive tholo, aut sacra ad fastigia fixi : 

 Hunc sine me, &c. 



iEneid. L. ix. 

 406. 



13. 'O Tp viKTi TroXe'/Uou aKpodluia, Before the spoils of victory were distributed 

 among the warriors, they considered themselves obliged to make an offering out of 

 them to the Gods, to whose assistance they were indebted for them all. Those sepa- 

 rated to this use were termed, according to the author of the Archaeologia Grseca, 

 uKpodivia, because taken OTr' &Kpov rod Oivhs, from the top of the heap. 



BEfrER. 



