CYNEGETICA, III. 248-263 



glorious Themisto." But notwithstanding, after the 

 race of afflicted mortals, to wild beasts also he served 

 up a banquet of Thyestes.* 



In the precipitous bounds of the Ethiopians there 

 is a great tribe of Wild Horses, "^ armed with two 

 venomous tusks. Tlieir feet, however, have not a 

 single hoof, but double Uke that of Deer. The mane 

 of the neck covers the middle of the back even to 

 the end of the tail. Never does that dread over- 

 weening tribe endure the servitude of man, but 

 even if the dark-skinned Indians by craft\' ambush 

 take the Wild Horse in their well-twisted toils, he 

 will not readily taste food Nvith his hps nor drink, 

 but badly bears the yoke of slavery. 



Mark also two dread saw-toothed ** tribes, the 

 sheep-slaying Wolf* and again the weak-sighted' 



and so corresponding to A. 's Arachotae, for whom cf. Strabo 

 513 flF., 721 ff. ; Dion. P. 1096 ; Amm. M. xxui. 6. 72 ; Solin. 

 liv. 2. The animal intended seems to be the Nylghau- 

 {Boselaphu^ tragocamelus), cf. the fraoelaphus of Plin. \iii. 

 12U ; Diod. ii. 51. On the other hand," O. Keller, Die Antik« 

 Tiervdt, i. 274 takes 1-wra.ypoi to be the Gnu. 



" Cf. C. iii. 5 n. 



• Canis luptis, . M.G. Xi'icoy, still pretty common iu N. 

 Greece and as far S. as Euboea and Attica, especially in 

 severe winters, and in the Peloponnesiis (Bik. p. 10), and 

 " now as of old the dread of the shepherds of Palestine " 

 (Tristr. p. 153). 



' Of the possible senses of SvaSepK-fit, dvaSepKcros, (1) seeing 

 with difficulty, (2) seen with difficulty, (3) ill to see, i.e. hideous 

 or terrible, SivSep/ceroy in C. ii. 607 of the Ape seems to have 

 sense (3) ; 3i'(r5ep«:jjs has sense (2) in C. i. 102 Ix^r/ dvffSepKfa 

 and 451 aTi3'n]% SvabepKios. In //. i. 47 where the /c^ea are 

 called bva5epK€a Sei/juiTa \ifiVTjs (Schol. 5i'<r^e'aTa, BiaOeiL'prjTa) 

 the sense may be (3) or (1); //. v. 64 oire yap europouaiv 

 d-rorpodfy is in favour of the latter. In the case of the 

 Hyena here and 290 it is not easy to decide between (3) and 

 (1), but the latter is rather favoured by 1. 269. 



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