CYNEGETICA, I. 93-116 



the midst of their girdle. For they should both array 

 bitter slaughter for wild beasts and also carry de- 

 fences against evil men. With his left hand the 

 hunter on foot should lead liis hounds ; -with his left 

 the mounted hunter should guide the bridle that 

 steers his horse. Let him wear a tunic well-girt '^ and 

 fastened above the knee and held tight by crossing 

 straps. Again on either side of his neck let his 

 mantle ^ be flung back over his strong shoulders to 

 hang away from the hands, for easy toil. With 

 naked feet should they travel who study the dim 

 tracks of -wild beasts, lest the noise of their sandals 

 grating under their sleek feet drive sleep from the 

 eyes of the wild beasts. To have no mantle at all 

 were much better ; since many a time a cloak stirred 

 by the breath of the noisy A^ind alarms the wild 

 beasts and they start up to flee. Thus let hunters 

 well array the agile body ; for such doth the archer 

 daughter of Leto love. 



Other times " at other hour let them go after the 

 wild beasts — at rising morn and when the day wanes 

 and at mid-day and anon at evening ; sometimes 

 again even in the dark they slay wild beasts by the 

 rays of the moon.'* The whole span of day is favour- 

 able and fair to the hunter for all-day coursing in 

 leafy spring" and in autumn when the leaves fall. 



* Poll. V. 18 Kal x^f'^^ Ofioia ijv del rri \onq. x«pt xepuydTreiv 

 6t6t( fj.(radeoi ra drjpia ^ ir pofffidxoiTO roirrots. 



' Poll. V. 4-9 OijpaTfov fiiv to'lvvv iv TavTi Kaip<^ ; Xen. C. 4. 

 11 dydffduffap Si (ai Kvvei) dipovi fuv /^X/" P''f<^Vf'^P^°-^t X'^'-f^^^^ 

 Se 5i iifUpai, fieroribpov Si i^u /teffTju^piai, eVros 5' iiudpai rd iap. 

 Cf. ibid. c. 5. 



** " Many a deer is killed during the bright moonlight 

 nights " (St. John, Wild Sportg, p. 60). 



' See V. 469 n. 



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