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taken by stratagom ; raioly, if over, at force. Oppiari is more 

 (lifl'iise, amplifying; the lion-chase with the Libyan, Indian, and 

 ^Ethiopian practices for capturing the king of beasts. 



As a splendid specimen of poetical talent in this too much 

 neglected author, (for he richly deserves the character bestowed on 

 his works by J. C. Scaliger, C. Barthius, and other eminent scho- 

 lars,) I select, from the latter part of the same book, the following 

 extract — a description of an Armenian bear-hunt. The bear is 

 found with the limehound of the country, the nets, snares, and 

 fii'lpivBos evarpofos are set, and the din of pursuit commences : 



<rd\iriy^ filv KeXaSriae ireXcepiov rj Se re x6xiJ^y\s Oppian. Cyneg. 



,>v - „ - V <>v -/> - L. IV. 398. 



otv AeATjKe dopoucra, kul o|u oeoopKe XaKovaa. 



al^rjol 5' firopoxKrav aoWees, e'/c 8' eKdrepdev 



amla Or/phs laai ^aKayyti^hv KKoviovres. 



7] 8' SnaSov irpoKmovaa Kol avepas, l$vs opovei 



yvfivhu '6wov Aeuffcrej treSiof iroXv' KeWev eiretra 



I|ei7js KOTO vuTov iyeipSfisvos \6xos auSpui/ 



K\ayy7]5hv irarayivcnv, eV ocppva firipivOoto 



aevSixevoi koL Seifia iroXvxpoov tj Se t' aviypij 



aft^iPoXos fxdXa irdfiirav orufb/xeVrj ■rre(pAp7iTai, 



TToj/To S' ofiov SeiSoiKe, \6xov, ktvitov, av\hi>, avrijif, 



5eiiJ.a\4r]v fj.ripii'doi', iirel KeXdSopros ar)T(oi 



raiviai t* icpvirepOe Sirjfpiai KpaSdovat, 



Kivinevou iTTfpvyes re Xiyffia avpi^ovcriv 



oSveKa Trairraivovcra kut &pKvas avrlov epirer 



iv S" eireaeu Kiveotai \6xois. k, t. \. 



But farewell the detail of these savage chases ! ^ — 



The king of brutes The Cliace. 



In broken roarings breathes his last, the bear * ' 



Grumbles in death ; nor can his spotted skin, 

 Though sleek it shine, with varied beauties gay, 

 Save the proud pard from unrelenting fate ! 



1. The reader will find descriptions of many of the different chases, for wliicli I 

 have no room here, in the Latin Cynegetica of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries, 

 cited under the boar-hiint of Calydon. For " the chiefe huntyng of the valiaunt 

 Grekes and noble Romaynes," see " The boke named The Governour, devised by Sir 

 Thomas Elyot, Knyght." B. i. c. xviii. 



