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Seiv^ S' avre Kd\ua Ta/xeiv, virh S' (ifjifiara Kvaai, 

 Ktxi irvKiVolffi ^6\ui(rti' oAkt^tJcoi Oavdrow 

 aWa Kvves iiiv &eipav ao\\4es, oi/S' ap' eKeivoi 

 KOI Kparepoi wep idvres avainaneL Safida-avro. 



Ill no case does he fall an easy prey to the disturbers of hiscunningly- 

 wrouaht latibulum : 



C^neg. III. 

 vs. 450. 



Martial. Epigr. 

 L. X. Ep. 37. 



juaA.' apri'ios iv irpairiSecrai, 

 Kol irivvri] vaiet itvudrois ivl (paiXeioiatv, 

 fTTTaTTvAovs ol^affa SSfiovs, TprjTds t6 KaKias 

 rr]\6d' air' aW7]\cov, ixi] fjLiv BripiiTopes &vdpes 

 a/xcpl OvpTj KoxSciii'Tes vnh .Gpox'SefftriJ' dyoovrai' 

 apyaXir] yevveffcri Kal avria Sriplffaadai 

 Qjiptxi t' apeiorepoiffi, Kal aypevrfipffi Kvviaaiv. * 



Even when, with the din of huntsmen and hounds, driven into nets, 

 the entangled felon, according to Martial, still fights it out, to the 

 no little discomfiture and injury of his canine antagonists; 



Hie olidam clamosus ages in retia vulpem, 

 Mordebitque tuos sordida prajda canes ... * 



Identical with the least of the hound tribe of the British isles, the 

 Canis venaticus minor of Ray's Synopsis, and Charleton's Onomas- 

 ticon, is the Oppianic Agassaeus ; the derivation of whose name has 



iHagstrr of 

 ©antf. 



c. VIII. fo. 43. 



1. " Men taken hem withe boundes," says De Langley, "withe greihoundes, 

 withe haies and withe pursnettis, but he kitteth hem withe his teethe as the mascles 

 of the wolf dooth but nat so sone." 



2. Lonicer's ratio vulpinandi in his ' venatus et aucupium' shows in its accom- 

 panying most spirited engraving the foxchase of three cenluries ago : 



Venatus et 

 Aucupium per 

 J. A. Lonicer. 



Callida versuto capitur stratagemate vuipes : 

 Novit enim dubias mille dolosa vias, &c. 



For the merits of the fox-chase, and its " commoditie of exercise," see Sir Thomas 

 Elyot's ' The Governour,' Book i. c. xviii. and for " the flying of this chase," see 

 a Sliort Treatise of Hunting, compyled for the Delight of Noblemen and Gentlemen, 

 by Sir Thomas Cockaine, Knight — wherein be states " that the author hereof 

 hath killed a foxe distant from the covert where hee was found foureteene miles aloft 

 the ground with hounds," — a run that would be deemed pretty good, I suppose, even 

 by the modern descendants of any Nimrod knight. 



