CYNEGETICA, or THE CHASE 



II 



Come now, daughter of Zeus, fair-ankled Phoebe, 

 maid of the golden snood, t^\in birth ^\'ith Apollo, 

 declare, I pray thee, who among men and mighty 

 heroes received at thy hands the glorious de\-ices of 

 the chase. 



By the foot of windy Pholoe " did savage tribes, 

 half-beast half-men, human to the waist but from 

 the waist horses, invent the chase for pastime after 

 the banquet.* Among men it was invented first by 

 him who cut off the Gorgon's head, even Perseus,* 

 the son of golden Zeiis ; howbeit he soared on the 

 swift ^\■ings "* of his feet to capture Hares and Jackals 

 and the tribe of \\ild Goats and s\\-ift Gazelles and 

 the breeds of Oryx and the high-headed dappled 

 Deer themselves. Hunting on horseback did Castor, 

 bringer of light,* discover : and some beasts he slew 

 by straight hurhng of his javehn to the mark ; 

 others he pursued on swift horses and put them to 

 bay f in the noontide chase. Saw-toothed ^ dogs were 



2-21 caeca sub nocte vocati Naufraga Ledaei sustentant vela 

 Lacones. Cf. Callim. (Loeb) II. v. -24 n. For dogs called 

 KacTTopiai. cf. Xen. C. 3. 1 ; Poll. v. 39. 



f Lit "took (slew) in the narrows." Cf. Lat. angtutuu. 

 The phrase is from Horn. //. xxiii. 330 ev ^ivoxv<^i-v 68ov. 



» C. iii. 5 n. 



