CYNEGETICA, IV. 114^141 



warfare of the hunt ; since their bright-eyed horses 

 are swiftest in running and stubborn to fight amain, 

 and they alone endure to face the Lion's roar, while 

 other horses tremble and turn away their eyes, 

 fearing the fiery eye of their lord the Lion : as I said 

 before " when I sang of horses. Men on foot spread 

 the circling hedge of flax, building up the nets on 

 close-set stakes. And the wings on either side 

 project forward as much as doth the horn of the 

 new-born moon. Three hunters lie in ambush by 

 the nets, one in the middle, the other two at the 

 extreme comers, at such distance that when the 

 man in the middle calls to them the men on the 

 wings can hear. The others take their station after 

 the manner of bloody war, holding in their hands on 

 either side dry flaming torches. And each man of 

 them holds a shield in his left hand — in the din of the 

 shield there is great terror for deadly beasts — and 

 in his right hand a blazing torch ^ of pine ; for, above 

 all, the well-maned Lion dreads the might of fire,'' 

 and vdU not look on it ^vith unflinching eyes.<* And 

 when they see the lions of valiant heart the horsemen 

 aU rush on together, and the men on foot follow with 

 them making a din, and the noise goes unto heaven. 

 And the beasts abide them not, but turn and flee, 

 gnashing their teeth with rage but un\\illing to 

 fight. And even as in the night crafty fishermen in 

 their swift ships guide the fish toward their nets, 



" A. 629 b 21 a.\r]6rj ra \ey6/j.eva, to re (po^eTcrOai- ^dXicTTa rb 

 trOp, «<nrep Kal "Ofiripos iiroi-rjaev *' Kaio/j.ei'ai re derai, rdj re rp^ei 

 eVcriVtcos irtp" (Horn. II. xi. o54 = xvii. 663); cf. Ael. vi. 22; 

 vii. 6 ; xii. 7 ; Plin. viii. 52 ; Claud. Jn Rufin. ii. 25-2 vacuo 

 quails discedit hiatu Irapatiens remeare leo quem plurima 

 cuspis Et pastorales pepulerunt igne catervae. 



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