CYNEGETICA, 1. llT-13t 



For excellent well tempered for the running of 

 horses and men and carrion dogs are the seasons in 

 golden spring which puts to rout the chilTy clouds ; 

 when the sea is navigable for seafarings men, who 

 spreAd the whitelTgging of their cam as-winged ships, 

 what time the earth rejoices in them that tend 

 plants ; when, too, she looses the bands of bud and 

 flower ; or again in late autumn " when the year is on 

 the turn, when the house of the rustic \-intager 

 flourishes ; when the fruit of Athena * fills the shining 

 pail '^ and the clusters of the garden vines joyfully 

 straiten ** the wine-vats ; when the lilywhite combs 

 fill the hives of the bees. But in mid-winter let the 

 hunters hunt at mid-day, in the season when in the 

 woods the swain shelters in a cave and gathering 

 dry sticks and piling a swiftly dying flame lies down 

 beside the fire and makes his supper. And in summer 

 the hunter must shun the fiery assault and heat of 

 the sun : at earliest dawn I bid him come to his 



or =ifiro\riviov, Lat. laciis, a sense which TpiirTTjp also has 

 (iroXXd cnj/j-aivfL ToC'vofj.a E.M.), cf. Poll. x. 130 rpi-KTTjp, 6 Kparrip, 

 eij 5f airoppei rovKaiov aWa Kai Xiycos Kal vvoK-qviov. Our 

 rendering, reached independently, agrees with the Lat. 

 version of D. Peifer (155o): Cum prerait arcta nirais sibi 

 torcularia botrus Gaudens. Schn.'s ^brrpw assumes that the 

 subject to x'l'Pf' is 7€wp76s. If that is right, then the con- 

 struction of iTri\y]via is difficult. Does it go with dXiSu-v or 

 Xaipei? The schol. taking ^orpvs as ace. pi. has ejri \-qvLa' 

 iiri rai irtXas (i.e. Lat. pilas, presses). Eutecu. has d.fi.we\o}v 

 Si /Sorpiis diraXors woai dXilSofievoi aKiprav irapacrKevo.^ei to, 

 iiri\rivia. We hear of songs of the wine-press : Ath. 199 a 

 iirdTovv Si i^yjKOVTo. "LarvpoL irpos avKbv ^Sovm /uf \os (TriXriviov ; 

 Anacreont. 57. 9 (Hiiler) iwiXrjvioicLv hfivon ; Poll. iv. 55 {rf, 

 ib. 53) eiriXrjviov a('\T]p.a iiri ^orpvwi' dXi^ofiiviov ; and of a 

 dance. Long. L>aph. and Ch. ii. 36 Api'-as 5^ dxacrrot Kal 

 iccXewraj ffvpirTeiv SiovvffiaKOv fieXos iTrik-qviov ainois dpxv^^" 

 upxriaaro. But ^irtX^pia x^'P*'" would be a very bold 

 expression. 



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