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pons, with which Oppian accoutres his able-bodied rustics for the 

 covert-side, 



EjusJem 

 L. I. 148. 



Koi fj-ijp T6aaa (pipoivTo ttotI kj/tj/xous ^vXoXovs t6 

 epyow6uoL Kpartpol 6vpr)s epiKvSfos 'dvAa, 

 ivrea t' ehQripoio fitya irviiovTa (pSvoio, k. t. A. 



Nat. Com. de and Natalis Comes, with his brief scholiast Ruscellius, throws no 

 light on them, in the borrowed armoury of his first cynegetic. The 



Hieron. 



Riiscell. Schol. Oppianic catalogue runs through eight lines, in which we recognize, 

 Breviss. Iliustr. 

 Aid. F. Venet. 



M.D.LI. 



P. A. Bargffii 

 C^neg. L. I. 



Oppian. Cyneg. 

 L. I. 450. 



in addition to the former implements of predatory hunting, others 

 particularly devoted to the capture of the hare, the ap-rraXnyov and 

 Xaywofoyos -piaiva, the hare-pole, and three-pronged hare-fork — 

 belonging probably to the class of murderous instruments mentioned 

 by the poet of Barga : 



Nee desint durte sinuato vertice clavas 



Qua; leporis cursum jactK compescere possint.' 



Among the more simple modes of following wild animals for cap- 

 ture, I should have earlier mentioned that of tracking— from its 

 simplicity, probably, coeval with the rudest species of pursuit. It is 

 alluded to in the 32nd Epigram of Callimachus, 



'nyp€VT)]S, 'EfftKuSes, eV ovp^cri iravra Kaywhv 



Si(pa, Kol Trdarjs Ixvia, SopKaXiSos, 

 arlPr] koi PKpercf Kex<''PWf''os — 



in the 1st Georgic of Virgil vs. 308. and the 2nd Satire of the 1st 

 book of Horace vs. 105. Oppian describes tracking as twofold, by 

 men, and dogs, — the former of course being the more ancient, and 

 more correctly termed tracking, the latter scenting : 



efSea 5« (Ttj/Sit/s SvaSepKfOS tirXero Stffaa, 

 avZpwv, T)6e Kwwv fiepoins /xiv ap" alo\60ov\oi 

 bfifxacri TfK/xijpavTo, Koi ev (ppdcraavro Ke\ev6a' 

 Hv^anripcri Kui>es 5e iravixi'ia ai]yi.rivavTO. 



Scliol. ad 

 Theocrit. id. 



1. The \ayoiP6\ov of Theocrilus IdvU. iv. 49. vii. 128. Epigr. ii. 3. {^v\ov, ^ 

 SiatpevyouTes ot Aayuol /SaAAoj/Tui,) seems to be the type of Barga;us's weapon — the 

 lagobolion of Natalis Comes. ])e Veiiat. L. i. 



