BIBLIOTHECA CYNEGETICA. 



'Oti jUfi/ ovv Kol fTtpois VTrtp TovTwv iairoi^aaTai, Ka\ws oTSa' ijui Se (fiavTw 

 ravra, Saa olov re -^c, adpotcras, Koi irfpiPaXciiv axiTols Tip' avvi)ST) Ae'^ii', Kftfii^Kiov oiiK 

 cuTwovSaaTou iKnnvrjcrai n€Trl<n€VKa. Ei Se Ttji Kal itAAif) (pavurai ravra AvcmfXTJ, 

 XpvffSa! ahrois' 0x9:1 Se ov (pavurai, earco T<j5 irarpX Od\weiv re Kal irfpiiTteif ov "yap 

 ttavra vucri Ka\ct,y ouSe &|ia Soku aTtov^daai Traai irdvTa. 



/Elian, de Natuua Animalium, Pii/f.fat. 



For the amusement of such as may be desirous of consulting the 

 Cynegetical works cited in the preceding annotations on Arrian and 

 the Appendix, a list of their respective titles and editions is sub- 

 joined. 



The author does not pretend to enumerate all the known editions of 

 each Cynegeticon, but only those of his own library. Where two or 

 more ot the same work are mentioned, the copy made use of is either 

 pointed out by specification, or the name of the editor and place of 

 publication are printed in italics. In cases of disputed text, different 

 editions have been collated, and the most approved readings selected 

 for use. 



Enrolled in the catalogue are a few treatises de re Venatica which 

 the present writer has never seen. They are admitted on the authority 

 of earlier compilers, in whose bibliothecaj they appear : but their im- 

 portance to the 6>ipr]s kXvto. hijvea (Oppian. Cyneg. I. 16.) is assumed 

 rather than established. Remoteness of residence from public libra- 

 ries must plead for the author's unavoidable ignorance. He could 

 not certify by actual examination the admissibility of any book not 

 on his own shelves. The works in question are distinguished by the 

 prefixture of an asterisk. 



A Bibliotheca Cynegetica upon the following plan was first at- 

 tempted by Rittershusius in his Prolegomena to Oppian, imperfectly 

 executed by Lallemant in his Bihliotheea Historica et Critica The- 

 renticograpiiQn, and subsequently, but still far short of perfection, by 

 Belin de Ballu in his prefatory matter to the poet of Anazarbus. The 

 latter's catalogue professedly excludes all prosaic works, save those 

 of the classic ages — departing from its rule in the solitary instance 

 of Conrad Heresbach's Compendium. Of the English Cynege- 

 tica, Somerville's Chace is alone admitted, the doggrel of the Book 

 of St. Alban's possessing insufiicient poetical pretensions, perhaps, 

 in the eyes of a foreigner, to place Dame Juliana Berners, or the 

 " one sumtyme scole mayster of seynt Albons," or whoever be the 

 author of these antique canons, amongst those " qui metriee banc 

 materiam persecuti sunt." Proleg. in Oppian. p. xvi. Ed. 4to. 



Xenophontis Opuscula Politica, Equestria, et Venatica, cum i. 



Arriani Libello De Venatior.e, ^c. J. G. Schneider. Oxoiiii, Xcnophon. 



MDCCCXVII. 



Xenophontis Scripta Minora, <Src. L. Dindorf. Lipsiae, 



MDCCCXXIV, 



On Hare Hunting, from Xenophon, by W. Blane, Esq. 

 London, 17i3B. 



