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APPENDIX. 



DeM 

 L. II, c. XII. 



Gratii Cyneg. 

 vs. 75. 



Wase's 



Illustrations, 



&c. p. 7. 



Gratii Cyneg. 

 vs. 85. 



The feathered line or pinnatum was called, from its effect, metus, 

 formido, and belfxara dripHv, (Oppian. Cyneg-. iv. 389.) " Cum 

 maximos ferarum greges," says Seneca, " linea pennis distincta 

 contineat, et in insidias agat; ab ipso effectu d'lctB, formido." 



Sunt quibus immundo decerptae vulture plumae 

 Instrumentum operis fuit, et non parva facultas. 

 Tantum inter nivei jungantur vellera cygni ; 

 Et satis armorum est. Ha;c clar^ luce coruscant, 

 Terribiles species : ab vulture dirus avaro 

 Turbat odor silvas, meliusque alterna valet res. 



The line of feathfers of various hue, impregnated with artificial 



odour, " was drawn about the woods ( oXiyov yat'jjs efvirepdev, 



Oppian. Cyneg. iv. 380.) in the intermitted spaces where the 

 toyles were pitched, that so the deer (than which no creature is 

 more timorous) might balk them, and be cast upon the net." The 

 linea thus flanked the bUrv or long net, where not extensive enough 

 to enclose the covert ; and filled the intervals, between the purse- 

 nets and nooses, when the latter were set independent of the retia. 



Hie magis in cervos valuit metus. ' Ast ubi lentee 

 Interdum Libyco fucantur sandice pinnea, 

 Lineaque extructis lucent anconibus arma : 

 Rarum si qua metus eludat bellua falsos. 



Theocriti Idyll. 

 L. XXV. 20C. 



ainap iyi> Kepas vyphv e\i)V, Kol\ijv re (papfrpav, 

 'Iwf e^uirAeir/j/, veonrjv erfpr/cpi re fidKrpou 

 evirayes, avr6<l>\oiov, inripecpeos Korivoio, 

 evfierpov. 



B. I, c. XVIII. 



The Persian hunting of Cyrus, as described in the Cyropsedia, (L. i. c. v.), presents 

 Sir T. Elyot's. "^ ^^^'^ warlike weapons alone. " Than tooke every man " (I quote from The Go- 

 The Governour. vemour) " with hym his bowe and quiver with arowes, his sword or hach of Steele, a 

 little tergat, and two dartes." 



1. " The formido," Wase admonishes the reader of his Preface to Gratius, " may 

 be in some measure retriv'd by looking into the Sicilian hunting, where it continues 

 in use at this day. When the nobles or gentry are inform'd which way a herd of 

 dear passeth, giving notice to one another, they make a meeting. Every one brings 

 with him a cross-bow or long-bow, and a bundle of staves. These staves have an 

 iron spike at the bottom, and their head is beared with a cord drawn through all of 



