eau 
for. the dpvagely 5 every avenue of inferior pleafure was 
obftructed b 
- 'Thefe a i in. n which the victors were only rewarded 
with “aaagl of pine-leaves, were oa with Sie 
time are them 
; the sic ones, but was reftored again to ae 
inhabitants of Corinth, when that city was rebuilt. 
Befides the four games called eh at which poets and. 
muficians contended for re-eminence, there were many 
e ied do ee which, however, 
games in hon of Minerva, infti- 
by the rp gre the moft ceane refined, and vo 
luptuous, people of Greece. 
There were two cen n feftivals under this denomination 
at Athens, where prizes were eftablifhed for three gute t 
kinds of combat : the firft confifted of foot and horfe races ; 
the fecond, of athletic. eae and the third of pecncl 
and mufical contetts. e laft are faid to have been 
> and ne great patron of arts and 
arft who excited emulation in 
poet s and muficians, at this feltival, by beltowing rewards 
pon the moft excellent ; sigh according to Plutarch, who 
hg confulted the Panathene sitter 
were of much earlier date jee than the time of Pericles. 
Rhap 
had oppofed the power of the Pififtratide, and of Ariftobu- 
lus, who had delivered the Athenians from the oppreffion of 
the thirty tyrants, ae gngel “po them by the Lacedemo- 
nians, were celebrated in thefe fongs. 
AME is alfo ufed for all kinds of wild beafts and birds fit 
for eating, and which are poe after on that account. 
ame includes wild s venery and chafe; and 
alfo iver be nd fowls of wa 
Some authors divide patie inte 
and fallow deer : 
pheafants, and partridges. 
A foreft is a ve fet apart for preferving, feeding, breed- 
ing, &c. all forts of game, and confifts ‘of divers things, 
wiz. foil, a ‘ae ‘courts, ines, offieers, game, a and 
bounds. See Forzsr. 
A chafe differs from a iy in this, among other things, 
that it. has no variety of ¢g ee Cris 
_ Wayso of catching ne are e by hunting, hawking, fowl- 
large, which include red 
= Jmall, to which belong hares, rabbits, 
e€ 
— Barbarians, 
ves of the country, who 
itary te: enants, in as ae low a condition as pof- 
. 
roops wh 
and it 
whi ch bore refemblance a _war 
f. 
nen reter ved 
m 
g 
- ia 
ila: ion , On 
as a ne oe or rfeiture for rae as interfer a kates their 
fFoverel me But freeholder had the full liberty of 
" {porting upon his own cee ies, provided that he abftained 
from the king? s forefts ; as is exprefled in the laws of Canute 
and Edward the Confeflor: * Sit quilibet homo dignus 
venatione fua, in fylva et in agris, fibi propriis, et. in do- 
minio fuc: ct abftineat omnis homo a venariis regiis, ubi- 
unque pacem eis habere voluerit :”? which indeed was the 
ancient law of the Scandinavian continent, from whence 
&® Cui : : 
for 
Llieir 
at his pleafare; but alfo upon another maxim 
mon eek = thefe animals are ¢€ ‘bona vacantia,” and, hav- 
e 
ae oe king, and fu an 
exclufive vight. This r 
From this pencil, that the fole right of taking os de- 
ftroying gam ongs Leeann to the king, if it be ad- 
ca it val follows, that no ‘ead hie does not derive 
=e the Crom, is by common law oe to 
one’s Gia tar nicl, j in ais “ Rural Sports,” 
has alfo introduced feveral obfery ations on the game Deus Sy 
“ coura of agriculture and improve- 
ment af party by giving ee coe an e dominion 
over his own foils’? but Mr. D. obje&s nies it cannot eafily 
be comprehended how, upon the author’s principle, the 
reitriGtion of a ae ral right to kill animals aecnaet 
n grounds, or permiflively on thofe of an- 
w the forbidding of a Reckoldee of tefs than 
ear, to killa partridge upon his own eltate, gives 
is 
