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APPENDIX. 



P. A. Bargaji 

 de Aucupio 

 L. I. p. 13. 



Oppian. Cyneg 

 L. II. 7. 



Tickell's 

 Miscellanies. 



Gratii Cyneget. 



TS. 2. 



On Venation, as a pastime, too much has already been said in 

 the preface to Arrian : and I will at present confine my remarks to 

 a few classical anecdotes of its primitive furniture, its founders, and 

 progressional improvement ; premising, by the way, that when men 

 were unacquainted with the blessings of civilization, and had no 

 idea of pleasure beyond the gratification of their appetites — when, 

 in short, they were in a state of nature — hunting was not the by- 

 work of leisure hours, but the call of continual urgency — not the 

 jocund diversion of a day, but' the]toilsome and perilous occupation of 

 a life. In such early times, the nonage of a fallen world, commenced 

 the war of men with beasts : 



Ccepere in pecudes avidi saevire ferasque, 

 Et nil tale prius meritas captare Tolantes. 



The personal safety of himself and those dependent on his 

 protection, and the daily cravings of hunger, dictated to man the 

 necessity of animal slaughter; so that, in seeking his quotidian 

 meal, he originated the art of hunting : 



iiriS6fnriov evparo Oiiprtu. 



Rude arts at first, but witty want refined 



The huntsman's wiles, and famine form'd the mind. 



The first hostile efforts of the barbarian lords of creation against 

 their biped and quadruped subjects, " joint-tenants of the shade" 

 with themselves, were confined, we may suppose, to manifestations 

 of physical strength and brute courage ; by which, under the 

 powerful incentives of self-interest, they procured the vital neces- 

 saries of food and clothing : 



prills omnis in armis ' 

 Spes fuit, et nuda silvas virtute movebant 

 Inconsulti homines. 



De Nugis 

 Curialium 

 L. I. c. IV. 



in the reign of our second Henry, and from whom later authors have purloined the 

 oft-repeated reprobation,) " si fidem sequamur historije, earn communicandam omni- 

 bus statuerunt. Et ex quo suspecta sit omnibus gens foeda parricidiis, ipcestibus 

 detestanda, insignis fraude, nota perjuriis, hujus artificii, vel potius maleficii, in pri- 

 mis preecepta congessit, quae postmodum ad gentem moUem imbellemque, levem et 

 impudicam (Phrygios loquor) transmitteret," &c. 



1. Armis from armi not arma. Wase's version is wrong. The term is more com- 



