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The Homeric inductors occur in the boar-hunt of Mount Parnas- 

 sus, in the van of which Ulysses, ohrafjievai /ue/iaws, distinguishes 

 himself, with the sons of Autolycus : 



ol 8' is fiiiaaav 'Ikhvov iiraKTripes' irph 5' &p' avTuv 

 'vC'? ipevfuivTes Kvves ij'iaav,^ k.t.A. 



and the abstract phraseology of Lucretius affords a second early no- 

 tice of them : 



OJyss. L. XIX. 

 435. 



turn fissa ferarum 

 Ungula quo tulerit gressuni, praemissa canum vis 

 Ducit. 



De Rerum 



Matura L. iv. 



6b4. 



The first limehound in the annals of sporting was Glympicus, 

 tutored in the art of harbouring by the Boeotian Hagnon, a hunts- 

 man immortalized by Gratius : 



Sed primurn celsa lorum cemce ferentera, 

 Glympice, te silvis egit Boeotius Hagnon, 

 Hagnon Astylides, Hagnon, quera plurima semper 

 Gratia per nostros unum testabitur usus. 

 Hie trepidas artes et vix novitate sedentes 

 Vidit, qua propior patuit via : nee sibi turbam 

 Contraxit comitem, nee vasa tenentia longe. 

 Unus presidium, atque operi spes magna petito, 

 Assumptus Metagon lustrat per nota ferarum 

 Pascua, per fontes, per quas trivere latebras, 

 Prima; lueis opus : turn signa vapore ferino 

 Intemerata legens, si qua est, qua fallitur, ejus 

 Turba loei, majore secat spatia extera gyro. 

 Atque hie egressu jam turn sine fraude reperto 

 Incubuit spatiis, qualis permissa Lechaeis 

 Thessalium quadriga decus, quara gloria patrum 

 Excitat, et prims spes ambitiosa coronas. 



Gratii Cyneg. 

 vs. 213. 



1. The Ascrean Poet's hunting-picture on the shield of Hercules is rather a chase 

 at speed, than trailing after leporine game ; 



Toi 5' cL/ci/TroSas Xayhs i]pew 

 ^fSpes BripevTot, Kot Kapxap('iSovre KVUi npO 



Hesiod. Scut. 

 Hcrcul.vs.302. 



