210 APPENDIX. 



A minute description of each particular chase would exceed the 

 limits of a compendium, ^ and lead me into too extensive a field. 



Ojipian. Cyneg. etSfa ttoWo. Tre\ei KXeirrjs iroXvepytos &yprjs, 



fivpia' Ti's Kev airavra fxiij (ppepl x<»p^<^^^^^t 

 eiireixivat /caret fioipav ; 



Let a few brief sketches of the more celebrated suffice — beginning 

 with the hare-chase of the keenest and most accomplished sportsman 

 of the classic ages. 



After the snares and nets are duly set, and a man placed to 

 watch them, the first-fruits of the sport being vowed to Apollo and 

 De Venatione Diana 'A yporepci, Xenophon slips one of his most keen-nosed dogs, 

 rrofwruTr] ly^veveiv, the rest of the pack being held singly at the co- 

 vert. If this finder hit on a scent, a second dog is immediately 

 slipped, and a third, and so on till the whole pack are in full cry 

 after the started hare. The huntsman follows with his pole, and chla- 

 Sic apud mj/s wrapped about his hand, cheering the dogs, '\u> kvpcs, Iw kvpps, 



Uindnrfii _ y, ~, ,. ii_iii 



Anuot. in loco o^'P'^s ye (o Kvt'es, Ka\ws ye lo Kvves, — takmg care not to iieaa tne 



pro KUKas. game — firj vTtavTav imopov yap — for nobody but a bungler and no- 

 sportsman is guilty of this. It is then customary to shout to the 

 watchman at the nets, XiiTf itals, avrf Ttals, waT. b)), ttoI bij — To her, 

 hoy ! to her, hoy ! now, hoy ! now, hoy ! — the latter replying whe- 

 ther the hare be taken or not. If she be captured, the hounds are 

 called off, and begin to draw for a second ; but if not, and they 

 again hit off the scent, the halloo should be Evye, evye w kvres, 

 eTzeaQe w Kvves. If the dogs are got very forward, so that the hunts- 

 man cannot keep up, but is thrown out — neither seeing them, nor 

 hearing their cry — he should keep running on, calling to everyone 

 he happens to come near, and inquiring for the pack — >) icaTe'ibes w>7 

 Tits Kvvas ; 



When he finds them, if still on scent, he should cheer, and call 

 every dog by name as often as possible, varying the intonations of 



1. Spirited representations of the different chases are given in RIontfaucon's An- 

 tiquities, Tom. III. Liv. III. from ancient gems, the Sepulchre of the Nasoni, Arch 

 of Constantine, &c. See also the Venationes Ferarum of a later date by Strada and 

 Galle, alreadj' referred to. 



