GYNEGETIGA, IV. 58-84 



watch the wind. And even as men who ride in 

 seafaring ships sit in the stern vriih the tiller in their 

 hands and scan the sky and obedient to the white 

 South Wind " spread the sails of their ships of canvas 

 Mings,** so on the dry land I bid the hunter scan on 

 either hand the ^vinds that blow, that so they may 

 set up their nets and drive the game ever against 

 the \nnd ; since all wild beasts have keenest sense 

 of smell, and if they perceive the scent either of the 

 net-stakes or the spread net, they rush the other way 

 and flee incontinently even in the very face of the 

 men and make vain the labour of the hunt. There- 

 fore I would have the slayers of wild beasts scan the 

 rushing -winds and face the course of the wind when 

 they attend to their stakes and the setting of nets ; 

 let them make back to the South when the clear 

 North Wind rises ; to the North if the de^vy South 

 Wind rages ; when the East Wind gets up, let them 

 run -with, the breezes of the West ; when the West 

 Wind stirs, let them speedily make for the East. 



But I would have thee first of all lay to heart the 

 excellent hon-hunt and the vahant spirit of the 

 hunters. First they go and mark a place where 

 among the caves a roaring well-maned Lion dwells, 

 a great terror to cattle and to the herdsmen them- 

 selves. Next they observe the great path with 

 the worn tracks of the wild beast, whereby he often 

 goes to the river to drink a sweet draught. There 



" Horn. 11. xi. 306 ; xxi. 334 a/r/effrao Noroto, where the 

 ancient critics interpreted the epithet either as (l) = Xei'«c6s ; 

 cf. \exnc6voTos, Hor. C. i. 7. 15 Albus ut obscuro deterget 

 nubila caelo Saepe Xotus neque parturit imbres Perpetuos ; 

 A. Probl. 94-2 a 34- 6 voros, OTai> fiiv iXdrruy g, alOpioi iariv, 

 Srav oe fieyai, ve<f>w5r)i ; or (2) = raxOs. 



* Aesch. P. V. 468 Xivowrepa vaiTiXwy oxVfiaTCL, 



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