CYNEGETICA, IV. 358-384 



dogs on leash, to seek the mazy tracks of the 

 deadly beasts. But when the dogs descry the signs 

 of footprints, they follow them up and guide the 

 trackers with them, holding their long noses nigh 

 the ground. And afterwards if they descry any 

 fresher track, straightway they rush eagerly, giving 

 tong^ue the while exultingly, forgetting the previous 

 track. But when they reach the end of their de\-ious 

 tracking and come to the cunning lair of the beast, 

 straightway the dog bounds from the hand of the 

 hunter, pitifully barking, rejoicing in his heart 

 exceedingly. As when a maiden in the season of 

 milky spring roams "with unsandalled feet over all 

 the hills in search of flowers and while she is yet afar 

 the fragrance tells her of the sweet violet ahead ; 

 her lightsome heart is gladdened and smiles, and 

 she gathers the flowers >vithout stint and wreathes her 

 head and goes singing to the house of her country- 

 dwelling parents ; even so the stout heart of the 

 dog is gladdened. But the hunter for all his eager- 

 ness constrains him with straps and goes back 

 exulting to the company of his comrades. And he 

 shows them the thicket and where himself and his 

 helper ambushed and left the savage beast. And 

 they hasten and set up strong stakes and spread 

 hayes and cast nets around. On either hand in the 

 two wings they put two men at the ends of the net<* 

 to lie under piles of ashen boughs. From the wings 

 themselves and the men who watch the entrance 



* The word dicpoXii'oii gives much the same sense as 

 aKp<i}\ipia (with which, of course, it has no etymoloerical 

 connexion) or "elbows" of Xen. C. 2. 6, which Poll. v. 29 

 defines as to. x^pora tQi' apKvur. /jLeiXipeouri rdyxmn, — if 

 correct — seems to mean "piles" or "heaps" of ashen 

 boughs. 



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