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APPENDIX, 



Hor. L. I. 

 Epist. VI. 58. 



Xenophon 

 de Venat. c. 



qui mane plagas, venabula, servos, 

 Differtum transire forum populumque jubebat, — 



is farther proof ; and so likewise the "/awm/e, comitumque animosa 

 juventus" of Nemesian, engaged in preparing the furniture of 

 hunting;!) — but I mean that the gentry were practically engaged in 

 this predatory venation, themselves directing and assisting in the 

 distribution of the whole machinery of it. In defence, however, of 

 Xenophon, the most accomplished of ancient sportsmen, and in con- 

 tradistinction of his habits in the field to those of modern poachers, 

 whom in some of his predatory tackling it must be allowed he 

 resembled, we may observe that he orders all the apparatus to be 

 taken away when the sport is over — avaXveiv ^pj) to. nepi Kvvrtyeaiov 

 ir&vra — a clear indication, that though he and his compeers used nets 

 and dogs together, forestalling their prey, contrary to the custom of 

 the more enlightened moderns, who hunt at force, Kara iroSas, — yet 

 it was held illegal, or at least unsportsmanlike, to leave snares on 

 the ground longer than the time of the actual chase. ^ 



Ovid. Metam. 

 L. VII. 805. 



1. Additional evidence of the attendance of servants being usual at hunting expe- 

 ditions, is afforded bj the tale of Cephalus, 



Venatum in silvis juveniliter ire solebam ; 

 Nee mecnm famulos, nee equos, nee naribus acres 

 Ire canes, nee Una sequi nodosa sinebam. 

 Tutus eram jaculo, &c. 



Preface to the 2. The hunting of the ancient Hebrews appears not to have differed materially 



Keader. from that of the Pagan world. " Canaan," observes Wase, " was hemmed in with 



Gratius ^ ' , 



Englished &c. deserts : there was the great Lebanon, and there was Mizpeh, and Tabor, and other 



by C. Wase. mountains which abounded with game; and in the royall age, I beleeve, hunting 

 itself was much frequented; for though the sacred history do not ex professo take 

 care to deliver us any thing concerning those lighter recreations, yet the frequent 

 representations made by it throughout the writters of that age, do give some proba- 

 bility that it was a frequent object among them, and taken from the common use. 

 David's persecutions are sometimes likened to fowling, oftentimes to hunting : his 

 enemies dig a pit for him, they set a snare to catch his feet. No authors of human 

 learning, whose works yet survive, make so much mention of grins as the Psalmes 

 have made : his enemies bend tliiir bow, and make their arrows ready upon the 

 string, to shoot at the righteous. J'his was Esau's artillery. So that according to 



