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them. And she, leaving the din and the men, rushes 

 straight where she sees an empty space of open 

 plain. Thereupon in turn an ambush of men arLses 

 in her rear and make a clattering din, driving her to 

 the brow of the rope and the many-coloured scare. 

 And the vvTCtched beast is utterly in doubt and flees 

 distraught, fearful of all alike — the ambush of men, 

 the din, the flute, the shouting, the scaring rope ; 

 for with the roaring wind the ribands wave aloft in 

 the air and the swinging feathers whistle shrill. 

 So, glancing about her, the Bear draws nigh the net 

 and falls into the flaxen ambush. Then the watchers 

 at the ends of the net near at hand spring forth and 

 speedily draw tight above the skiiiing cord " of broom. 

 Net on net they pile ; for at that moment Bears 

 greatly rage with jaws and terrible paws, and many 

 a time they straightway evade the hunters and 

 escape from the nets and make the hunting vain. 

 But at that same moment some strong man fetters 

 the right paw of the Bear and widows her of all her 

 force, and binds her skilfully and ties the beast to 

 planks of wood and encloses her again in a cage of 

 oak and pine, after she has exercised her body in 

 many a twist and turn. 



Xen. C. 2. 4 v<peiadwaav Se oi Trfpiopofj.Oi avdfj.iJ.aTOi, tva eOrpoxoi 

 w<n. The irepiSpo/jLoi might also be attached to the net by 

 loops (toi'j Si irepidpofjLOvs dwb <Trpo<(>iwv Xen. C. 2. 6 ; cf. 

 Poll. V. 29 irpo^dWovrai 5e roii Siktvoh diro <TTpo<pfuii') : Xen. 

 C. 10. 7 Tov tr (pi5pofj.ov f^diTTfiv dirb dfvSpov t'crxi'poP. Xen. 

 C. 6. 9 speaks of fastening the wepiSpofMoi to the ground 

 {KaBaTTTuy rovs TreptS/so^OLS e'xi TTjy '/TJi'). Here he must be 

 referring to the skirting-rope at the lower margin of the 

 net from which the upper rope was sometimes distinguished 

 as e-riSpopici : Poll. v. 29 nyis 8e roirroi's iviSpofjiovt utvopMo-av, 

 oi oe 5i''0 6vT(j}v TOV fiiv e/c tov /cdruj TrepiSpofj.ov, eTriSpopLov di 



TOV SlVW0(V. 



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