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APPENDIX. 



De Venatione 



C. IX. 



Apuleii IMet. 

 L. vjii. p. 512. 



tempt with which she looks down, olov uiro aKo-mus, on their fruitless 

 efforts to overtake her. 



The stag-hunt is treated of by Xenophon, in his ninth chapter, 

 with snares, traps, &c. Indian dogs are here preferred, for their 

 size, strength, speed, and courage. But as his name-sake has 

 written on the same variety of chase with Celtic hounds and Scy- 

 thian horses, I pass on to the boar-hunt, in which the former is 

 Ejusdem c. x. diffuse — too diffuse for more than a bare reference. Indian and 

 Locrian hounds are selected from the pugnacious class, and Cretan 

 and Spartan from the sagacious, to assist the sportsman in his attack 

 of the wild boar. The latter hound appears to be employed, on this 

 occasion, as a lime-dog, or inductor, to find out the lair of the beast. 

 Purse-nets, javelins, 7rpo/36\m, and woboffTpafSai, are in request. 

 " Jamque apud frondosum tumulum," says Apuleius, in a vivid, 

 but somewhat wordy sketch, "■ ramorumque densis tegminibus um- 

 brosura, prospectu vestigatorum obseptis carapis, canes venationis 

 indagini geuerosae, mandato, cubili residentes invaderent bestias, 

 immittuntur : statimque solertis disciplinae memores partitae totos 

 prjecingunt aditus : tacit&que prius servat<i mussitatione, signo sibi 

 repentino reddito, latratibus fervidis dissonisque miscent omnia " — 

 " aper immanis atque invisitatus exsurgit," &c. 



Ovid's Calydonian boar-hunt, with the " lecta manus juvenum " 

 of Meleager's confederacy, will occur to the classical reader, and 

 farther illustrate this perilous species of chase ; ^ which, with" others 

 yet more dangerous, described by Xenophon in the 11th chapter of 

 his Manual, and by Oppian in his fourth Cynegetic, constitute 

 examples of the bellica Venatio, " periculosae plenum opus aleae," 

 so emblematic of actual war. 



The Athenian is very brief on the subject of lion, pard, lynx, 

 panther, and bear-hunting. These ferocious brutes are commonly 



Ovid. Metam. 

 L. VIII. 



Horat. Od. 

 L. II. 1. 6. 



1. For further particulars, see Xen. de V. c. x. Oppian. Cyn. iii. vs. 379. Adrian. 

 Venat. vs. 55. (Edit. Aid.) Natalis Comes de Ven. L. iii. v. 342. (Edit. Aid. F.) Cae- 

 sar. Borgiae Duels Epiced. per H. Strozam. P. A. Bargaei Cyneg. iv. p. 104. and lac. 

 Savary, Syothera L. i. A capital wood-cut of a boar bayed by ferocious hounds is 

 given by I. A. Lonicer in his Venatus ei Aucupium, Tab. Aper. and others in the 

 Venationes Ferarum of Strada and Galle. See also the IHauStcr Of (SSamc; of \^t 



tDgKretoor, c. vn. 



