CYNEGETICA, I. 135-153 



task, when in the morning the countrymen with well- 

 fashioned stilt guide the earth-cutting plough behind 

 the steers beneath the pole ; or again at evening 

 when the sun slopes '* his team toward the West ; 

 when herdsmen command their herds what time they 

 travel homeward to their folds, heavy of breast and 

 swollen of udder : and, bounding incontinently from 

 the stone-built steading, all leap about their beloved 

 mothers — the bright-eyed calves about the large- 

 eyed cows, the lambs about the bleating horned 

 ewes, the kids about the bleating goats, and about 

 the brood mares their swift foals. 



And these are the weapons ^ of the glorious chase 

 which the stalwart hunters should carry to hill and 

 wood, these their arms breathing of the blood of 

 beasts : purse-nets '^ and well-twisted withes and long 

 sweep-net '^ and hayes and net-props " and grievous 

 fettering nooses, three-pronged spear, broad-headed 

 hunting lancCj^hare-stick^and stakes and swift winged 



or purse (the " women's ridicules " of Noah Claypole, Oliver 

 Twist, c. 4-2). Cf. Neraes. 299 f. casses venatibus aptos 

 Atque plagas, longoqiie meantia retia tractu. 



•* Cf. Horn. //. v. 487 d-/'£(rt \ivov aXopre iravdypov ; Hesych. 

 vdi'a.ypa, Travdypia, ev oh to. XeTrrd dripeveTai ; E.M. a.-'pLi ; 

 Poll. i. 97, ix. 12, X. 132. 



« Forked sticks for supporting nets = Lat. varae, cf. Luc. 

 iv. 439 Dum dispositis attoUat retia varis ; Xen. C 2.-7fF. 

 {c.l. ardXiKes, crTaXtSes), vi. 7 fF. It is hard to know if 

 (TXaXiSes differ from (7rd\tx:es (v. 157). PoU. v. 19 has 

 oraXtSes, (TTaXiSuifxaTa as well as crxaX'Ses, <rTa\i5es, <rxaXi5ti,uaTa 

 {cf. ib. 32). Hesych. cxaXis' rb SiKTvov, and crx'''*^'5ej' 5t' wv 

 (7Xdfoi;cri TO. SiKTva 6p0d earCiTa, which suggests that crxaXiSej 

 raay^Lat. amitss and have been used with the clap-net. 

 Cf. Poll. vii. 114 fivdypas, wv to cffTd/Jievov re kol ffxo-i'ofJ-^voy 

 raTrdXiov. 



' Athen. 301b KVfriyol Ix'"''''*^ (n^vva.^ iwixpvo'ovs ', Verg. 

 A&ii. iv. 131 lato venabula ferro. 



' Only here; possibly = Xa7aj,36Xoy Theoc. iv. 49, vii. 128. 

 c 17 



