APPENDIX. 1!H) 



But of " tlio abrogated styles of hunting in the ignorant non- 

 age of the world," — to use the language of Christopher AVase, — 

 enough. The pit, the snare, and other svpellex venandi, were 

 employed, as already stated, long before the dog was tutored to the 

 chase, ^ and were continued after his initiation, and that of his 

 valued associate and coadjutor the horse, (the joint-presents of the 



tliat age, hunting was so instituted ; for our author, speaking of these two, intimates 

 that they were courses of an elder date, for Ginas saith he, 



Nam/ttif et laqueis aliquis curracibus usus : 

 Cervmo jussire magis, &c. 



He saith likewise for bows and arrows, 



Magnum opus et celeres quondam fecire sagittae. 



David's enemies hide a net for him. ' The proud have hid a snare for me, and Psalm cxl. 5. 



cords ; they have spread a net by the way side ; they have set grins for me.' Neither 



was it unknown to the Jewish huntsmen the way of driving beasts, by an immission 



of fear, which is the fonnido et pinnatum," &c. The biblical scholar will remember 



the memorable passage of the book of Job, " the steps of his strength shall be Job c. xviii. 



straitened, [Gr. hunted,) and his own counsel shall cast him down. For he is cast into 



a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. The gin shall take him by the 



heel, and the robber shall prevail against him (the entangling cord or noose holdeth 



him fast). The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way. 



Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet." In the 



prophet Isaiah almost all the methods of capture given in the Classic Cynegetica 



contribute their metaphorical signification. " Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are Isaiah c. xxiv, 



upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. And it shall come to pass, that he who fleetli 



from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit ; and he that cometh up out of the 



midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare." See also Jeremiah c. xlviii. and 



Ezekiel c. xix. The irayiSes Oavdrov of the LXX. version of Proverbs xxi. 1. may 



be compared to the *' mortis laquei " of Horace, L. in. Od. xxiv. vs. 8. and to the 



" leti plagae " of Statins Silv. V. i. vs. 155. 



1. It is a curious fact, that in the Hebrew text of the Scriptures there is no allu- 

 sion whatever to hunting with dogs. Nimrod is called in the Greek version ylyas 

 Kvvriyhs, Genesis x. 9., and Esau ivOponros elSoos Kwriyeiv, Genesis xxv. 27.; but in 

 the Hebrew, there is no reference to the employment of the dog. The cam's lutnbis Bocharf. 

 tenuibus, quo ad venationem utunlur venatores, introduced by commentators. Proverbs Hierozoic. 

 XXX. 31., I believe to be a fanciful rabbinical creation. See a note on the subject in 

 the prefatory matter to my translation of Arrian. 



