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APPENDIX. 



LucaniPliarsal. 

 L. IV. 437. 



Having already noticed the wary employment of the mute finder 

 to search out the lair of animals obnoxious to the chase, let us look 

 at the subsequent proceedings.^ When the nets and snares were set, 

 the game found, and started by the Canes ductores, the attendants, 

 it seems, slipped the latrant pack, which were held in couples ?.t 

 hand. That this was the ordinary routine is proved by Xenophon, 

 Lucan, Seneca, and others. The Greek sportsman of Scillus does 

 not, indeed, say that the dog first slipped should be mute, but 

 merely quick-scented. Lucan, however, particularly states his qua- 

 lity of closeness in the lines of his Pharsalia, where he likens the 

 naval tactics of Octavius, " Illyricze custos Octavius undee," to the 

 wily stratagems of a huntsman preparing for the attack of his 

 game ; 



— Sic dum pavidos formidine cervos 

 Claudat odorata; metuentes aera pennse : 

 Aut dura dispositis attollat retia varis 

 Venator, tenet ora levis clamosa Molossi; 

 Spartanos Cretasque ligat; nee creditur ulli 

 Sylva cani, nisi qui presso vestigia rostra 

 Colligit, et praeda nescit latrare reperta, 

 Contentus tremulo monstrasse cubilia loro. 



Senecse 

 Hippolyt. 

 Act. I. 30. 



— and Seneca implies the same, 



at vos laxas 

 Tacitis canibus mittite habenas ; 

 Teneant acres lora Molossos, 

 Et pugnaces tendant Cressse 

 Fortia trito vincula collo. 

 At Spartanos (genus est audax 



Wase's 



Illustrations, 



&c. c. vi. p. til. 



1. " The hunting used by tbe ancients was much like that way which is at pre- 

 sent taken with the Raindeare which is seldome hunted at force, or with hounds, but 

 onely drawne after with a blood-hound, and forestall'd with nets and engines. So 

 did they with all beasts ; and therefore a dog is never commended by them for 

 opening before hee hath by signcs discover'd where the beast lyeth in his layre, as 

 by their drawing stifle our harbourers are brought to give right judgment. There- 

 fore I doe not finde that they were curious in the rausique of their bounds, or in a 

 composition of their kcmiell and pack, cither for dccpenesse or lowdnesse, or sweet- 

 nesse of cry like to us," Sec. 



