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common sources, not to direct borrowing of the one 

 from the other. 



III. Hunting, Fishing, Fowling 



And God said, Let us make man in our image, 

 after our likeness : and let them have dominion over 

 the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and 

 over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over 

 every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 

 — Genesis i. 26. 



l\dva-i fiiv Kal drjpa-X koI otwvots Trerer^voiS. Hesiod, 

 W. 277. 



<f>v\a 6 €p7r€Ta Tocrcra rpe^ei fxeXaiva yata 



drjp€<; T 6p€(rKW0L koi yevos /xekLcrcrav 



Kal Ki'wSaX' €v /3fu6ecrcn Trop(f)vpeas ctAos, 



evSovcrtv 8' oi'wvwv <f)v\a ravxmTipvywv . Alcraan fr. 



65 (10). 

 KOV({iOv6(ov T€ (fivXov opvWiiiv afi(f)ifiaX(i}v ayei 

 Kai drjpwv aypuov Wvq ttovtov t elvaXiav (fn'criv 

 (nreipaKTL StKTi'OKAcocrTOis 

 mpL(f)pa8r]<; avqp. Soph. Antig. 343 fF. 



Turn laqueis captare feras et fallere visco 

 inventum et magnos canibus circumdare saltus, 

 atque alius latum funda iam verberat amnem 

 alta petens pelagoque alius trahit humida lina. 



Verg. Georg. i. 1 39 ff. 



Corresponding to the popular division of wild life 

 according to habitat — creatures of the land, the 

 water, the air — we find the art of capturing or 

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