CYNEGETICA, I. 54^70 



is their hunting without toil. But their toil only 

 pleasure attends and no bloodshed : unstained of 

 gore are they. The angler sits on the rocks beside 

 the sea and with cur^•ing rods and deadly hooks he 

 catches, at his ease, the fish of varied sheen ; and 

 joy is his when he strikes home ^^ith barbs of bronze 

 and sweeps through the air the writhing dancer of 

 the sea. leaping high above the deeps. Yea and to 

 the fowler his toil is sweet ; for to their hunt the 

 fowlers carrj- nor sword nor bill nor brazen spear, 

 but the Hawk * is their attendant when they travel 

 to the woods, and the long cords ^ and the clammy 

 yellow birdlime " and the reeds ** that tread an airy 

 path. Who would dare to sing of these things as of 

 equal weight : Or who would pit the Eagle against 

 the Lion King « ? And who would hken the Muraena 

 to the venom of the Pard, or Jackal to Hawk, or 

 Rhinoceros to Sea-urchin, or Gull to Wild Goat, or any 



Spvbs iKudSa Tov re T€TeLvQv dypeiTav i^ifi fivdaXeoy dcyaxa. 

 Cf. Athen. 4ol d '\tiiv 5c . . Spi'ds iSpHira eipriKe rbv i^oy er 

 TOVTOis' dpvo^ fi iSpijii I Kal dafiyofiriKTji pd^Soi ij r Alyvwria | 

 ^oa-Kft \iyov\Kbi X'^"'''''i Oitpaypoi ireSyj. It may have been 

 sometimes made, as now, from holly bark. 



** The limed reeds (" lime-twigs," Milton, Com. 6\6) of 

 the fowler: I'leiTats Ara\d/nots A. P. vi. 15-2. As in the case of 

 the fishing-rod (dovaKa rpirawtiTov A.P. \\. 19-2), several 

 reeds might be so joined together as to be capable of 

 extension. Cf. Bion, iv. 5 (i^ei'rdj) tCk voXd/xws ifia. rdyras 

 iT a\\d\oL<Ti ffivdiTTuy i A.P. ix. 273 dovyaKoeyra Kpiruiy 

 ffvyOfis SoXoy; Mart. xiv. 318 Non tantum calamis sed cantu 

 fallitur ales. Callida dum tacita crescit arundo manu ; Mart, 

 ix. 5i; Sil. \ii. 674; Ov. J/, xv. 474, and especially Val. 

 Fl. Arff. vi. -260 Qualem populeae fidentera nexibus umbrae 

 Siquis avem sumrai deducit ab aere rami. Ante manu tacita 

 cui plurima crevit harundo; Ilia dolis viscoque super 

 correpta tenaci Implorat calamos atque inrita concitat alas. 



' Ael. iii. 1 Xewv ... 6 rdiv fwwv /3o<n\ei''s ; Phil. 34 d-rjpujy 

 fioffiXevs Opaffin 6.va^ Xfojy. 



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