L, IV. 58G. 



A rriiN 1)1 \. ltS7 



The Ciliciaii poi't lias lelt a graphic description of the formido, as 

 employed in the Armenian bear-hunt — a picture so vividly sketched, 

 Cyneg. iv. :J80., that I regret its length prevents transcription. 

 A part of it will be found hereafter under the Eastern " Canis 

 [nductor'—tUe Armenian liniehouiid. The fourth Halicutic, in an 

 apposite and beautiful simile, describes the startling effect of the 

 feathered line on timid animals of chase : 



wSe Koi eV ^u\6xoi(rtv dpfarepoi aypevrripfs Oppian. Hal, 



eTXov avaKKelrjv i\a.cpwv ivaypii Te'xfj;, 



fiTipivBai crrexl/avTes cinav Spios' aij,(pi Be KOv<pwv 



opvidoiv 5r}(ravro 6oa impd' ral S' iaopuaai 



r]\efiaTa irTfiffaovcTi Kevhf <p6^ov, ouSe ireKaffcrai 



(xw^iBiais TTTepvyecTatv arv^Sfievai fie/xdacnv 



ela-6Ke OtjpTjTTJpes iirat^avTes '4\u(Xi. 



Many notices of this instrument w^ill occur to the classical reader 



them. Their length is about four foot. Being thus provided, they come to the herd, 

 and there casting themselves about into a large ring, they surround the deer, and 

 then every one of them receives a peculiar stand, and there unbinding his fagot, ties 

 the end of his cord to the other who is set in the next station ; then to support it, 

 sticks into the ground each stafFe about the distance of ten foot one from another. 

 Then they take out feathers which they bring with them dyed'in crimson for this very 

 purpose, and fastned upon a thrid which they lie to the cord, so that with the least 

 breath of wind they are whirl'd round about. Those which keep the severall stands, 

 withdraw, and hide themselves in the next covert. After this the chiefe ranger 

 enters within the line, taking with him only some hounds, which draw after the herd, 

 and coming near with their cry, rouse it. Upon which, the deer fly till they come 

 towards the line, where they turn oflto the left, and still gazing upon the shining and 

 shaking feathers, wander about it as if they were kept in with a wall or pale. The 

 chief ranger pursues, and calling to every one by name, as he passeth by their stand, 

 cries to them that they should shoot the first, third, or sixth, as he shall please ; and 

 if any of them miss or single out any other then that which was assigned by the 

 ranger, it is counted a disgrace to him : by which means, as they pass by the severall 

 stations, the whole herd is kill'd by diverse bands . . . These stakes are of the same 

 use with those ancones* mention'd in Gratius, but it might seem that they are farther 

 improv'd." — " These things," continues the translator of the Faliscian, " may be of 

 use to have been preraitted ;" and with the same view they are here introduced by 

 the author of this Appendix. 



* The staves (lithe Sicilians are the ancones of Gratius— the araXiKis and irxciAfSes 

 of the Greek hunters. 



