GYNEGETIGA, IV. 199-224 



foam and, like one ashamed, fixes his eye upon the 

 ground. As a man who hath won many a crown of 

 wild olive for boxing in the games, when he is over- 

 come with wound on wound by a valiant adversary 

 in close combat, stands at first bathed in torrents 

 of blood, as if reehng with drink, and hanging his 

 head to one side : then his legs give way and he 

 is stretched upon the ground ; even so the Lion 

 stretches his exhausted limbs upon the sand. 

 Then the hunters busy themselves much more, and, 

 swiftly pressing all upon him, they bind him vriih 

 strong bonds, while he makes no attempt to escape 

 but is altogether quiet and motionless, O greatly 

 daring men ! what a feat they compass, what a deed 

 they do — they carry ofiF that great monster hke a tame 

 sheep ! 



I have heard that with trenches and like devices 

 men captiu-e also the bold Jackals and deceive the 

 tribes of Leopards " : only with much smaller trenches, 

 and they cut not a pillar of stone but a beam of oak. 

 And they do not hang aloft a kid,* but a puppy, the 

 pri\"y parts of which they bind ^vith thin straps. In 

 its agony it straightway howls and barks, and its 

 cry is heard by the Leopards. The Leopard rejoices 

 and rushes straight through the wood. As when 

 fishermen set up a weel to ensnare fish, plaiting it 

 of Salaminian broom," and in the inside of it put a 

 Poulpe ^ or Grey Mullet * roasted in the fire ; the 

 savour thereof comes unto the flat ledges and brings 



"* For the Poulpe or Octopus c/, B. i. 306 n, ; for broiled 

 Poulpe as bait, H. iii, 345, 



• Cf. i/, i. 1 1 1 n. The schol, here is worth quoting for 

 its absurdity : Ke<TTprja • Ktyoi \wpos. Read Kem-rfrbs \Qpos. 

 The schol. has confused (ceo-rpei'-j with Kearo^, a girdle ; cf. 

 Zon, Kearoi' 6 KtvTrjTQi \Cipos. 



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