INTRODUCTION 



feeds in the night and hides by day, you reared dogs 

 which should find him by scent. And because, 

 when found, he fled swiftly, you had other dogs 

 fitted to take him by speed of foot. If again, he 

 escaped these also, you would learn his roads and 

 the sort of places that he is caught fleeing to, and in 

 these you would spread nets diflicult to see and the 

 Hare in his impetuous flight would fall into them 

 and entangle himself. And, to prevent him from 

 escaping even from these, you set watchers of what 

 happened (t.e. apKvuipoi Xen. Cyn. 6. 5), who from 

 close at hand might quickly be on the spot ; and 

 you behind shouting close upon the Hare frightened 

 him so that he was foolishly taken, while, by in- 

 structing those in front to be silent, you caused 

 their ambush not to be perceived." See also " Joannis 

 Caii Britanni De canihus Britannicis " and " Hier. 

 Fracastorii Alcon sive De cura canum Venaticonim" 

 in Lemaire, op. cit. vol. i. pp. 147 if. The work of 

 Dr. Caius — founder of Caius CoUege, Cambridge — is 

 addressed to Gesner. 



3. Fishing (dAteirrtKv;, pLscatus). We possess a 

 fragment — some 132 hexameters — of the Halieutica 

 of Ovid {cf. Plin. xxxii. 152 his adiciemus ab Ovidio 

 posita nomina quae apud neminem alium reperiuntur, 

 sed fortassis in Ponto nascentium, ubi id volumen 

 supremis suis temporibus inchoavit : boiem, cercurum 

 in scopulis viventem, orpkuvi rubentemque erythinum, 

 iuluni, pictas mormyras aureique colons chrysophryn, 

 praeterea s^parum, tragiim, et placentem cauda mela- 

 nurum, epodas lati generis. Praeterea haec insignia 

 piscium tradit : channen ex se ipsa concipere, glaucum 

 aestate nunquam apparere, pompilum qui semper 

 comitetur naviura cursus, chrovtim qui nidificet in 



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