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red and roe deer, and wild asses of extraordinary agility and en- 

 durance, are captured by mere boys — a style of chase resembling the 

 Arabian onager-hunting of the elder Xenophon's Anabasis. But 

 whatever innovations upon the established field-sport of the mother 

 country may have been effected in remote Celtic colonies, by the 

 substitution of other larger quarry in lieu of the hare, the latter is 

 alone to be viewed as the legitimate prey of the Vertragus. 



treatise, is to be attributed the supplementary one, written by the younger Athenian. 

 But it is quite problematical whether hounds were employed at all in the Cello- 

 Scythian and Libyan chases — indeed, it is my opinion, they were not : — for, though 

 it be true, that Arrian recommends picked dogs, of high courage, for the stag-course, 

 at the commencement of chapter 23, we hear nothing of hounds in the stag-chase, 

 immediately following, on the ireSia fvr]\aTa of Moesia, Dacia, Scythia, &c. ; where 

 long-winded, and scrubby nags supply their place. And again, in the onager-chase 

 of the Nomadic tribes of Libya, barbs alone are the pursuers, with boys upon their 

 naked backs, continuing at full speed till the game be run down. So that ovroi roi 

 6r)poi(nv, Scrois Kvves re aya6a\ koI 'lirirot, k.t.X. with wiiich the author commences the 

 period immediately following the description of the vanquished onager, must in part 

 have a more remote reference than to the hunters spoken of in the same and prece- 

 ding chapters — Scrois Kvvfs re ayaOal referring to the Celts of Western Europe, per- 

 haps, and'/TrTToi to the equestriansjust before mentioned — the former class of sportsmen 

 using swift-footed hounds, the latter horses alone. This interpretation harraonizea 

 with Oppian's description of the horses and hunters of Libya and Mauritania, and 

 their chases, as already cited c. zxiv. note 8. 



Oppian. Cyneg. 

 L. IV. 51. 



Totv€Keu lirTeXdrai Kelvuv iirtfiriTopes 'liriruv 

 •^5e Kvvas helirovffi (plKovs, irlawoi t' i\6aiaiv 

 jViroiy, TjeXiov re jSoXp, /coi v6cr<piv ipwyuy. 



