classic courser, he has left works behind him which will endure as long as literature itself;-he has done all in his power to benefit and instruct mankind in various departments of human learning;-has contributed his mite to the advancement of rational science and healthful recreation, and proved himself worthy of the immortality he so fondly anticipated.

LA CHAUSSE.

KYON

ARRIAN ON COURSING.

Οὐ γάρ τοι οὐδ ̓ ἴσος ὁ ἀγὼν λαγωῷ καὶ κυνί· ἀλλ ̓ ὁ μὲν, ὅποι βούλεται, θεῖ, ἡ δὲ ἄλλῳ ἐφομαρτεί· καὶ ὁ μὲν ἐξελίξας τὸν δρόμον καὶ διαῤῥίψας τὴν κύνα ἴεται τοῦ πρόσω, ἡ δὲ, εἰ διαῤῥιφθείη, πλάζεται· καὶ ἀνάγκη φθάσαντα αὖ μεταθεῖν καὶ ἀναλαβεῖν, ὅσον ¿Envexen Toû Spóμov.-ARRIAN. de Venat. c. xvII.

Canis in vacuo leporem cum Gallicus arvo
Vidit; et hic prædam pedibus petit, ille salutem :
Alter inhæsuro similis, jam jamque tenere
Sperat, et extento stringit vestigia rostro ;

Alter in ambiguo est, an sit deprensus, et ipsis
Morsibus eripitur; tangentiaque ora relinquit.

OVID. METAM. L. 1. 533.

If for sylvan sports thy bosom glow,
Let thy fleet greyhound urge his flying foe.
With what delight the rapid course I view!
How does my eye the circling race pursue!
He snaps deceitful air with empty jaws,
The subtle hare darts swift beneath his paws :
She flies, he stretches: now with nimble bound
Eager he presses on, but overshoots his ground:
She turns, he winds, and soon regains the way,
Then tears with gory mouth the screaming prey.

GAY'S RURAL SPORTS, Canto 11. 289.

BRITISH MUSEUM

Nemesian Cyneg V 20.

THE advantages that accrue to mankind from hunting, and the regard of the Gods for those instructed in it by Chiron, 1 and their honourable distinction throughout Greece, have been related by Xenophon, the son of Gryllus.

He has pointed out the similitude between Cynegetical and Military science; and the age, constitution, and frame of mind,

CHAP. I.
Preface.

Summary of Xenophon's

Cynegeticus.

1. Chiron, the son of Saturn and the nymph Philyra, is fabled to have received his knowledge of hunting from Apollo and Diana; and to have instructed the numerous disciples, recorded by Xenophon in the first chapter of his Cynegeticus, in the science and practice of the chase.

Quis primus tulit ista viris? hominumne Deûmne
Ingeniis inventa? dedit quis commoda tanta?
Delia Phillyridem primum Chirona fugaces
In sparsos per rura greges, sylvâque vagantes
Armavit, fecitque vias in commoda tanta.

2. For the connexion of the Chase with Military Tactics, see Xenophon de Venatione c. XII., the latter part of c. XIII. Cyropædia L. I. c. v. dià Touтo dnμoola Toû θηρᾷν ἐπιμέλονται· ὅτι ἀληθεστάτη δοκεῖ αὕτη ἡ μελέτη τῶν πρὸς τὸν πόλεμον εἶναι. L. VIII. c. XII. De Republicâ Lacedæmon. c. iv.

3. See Xenophon de Venat. c. 11. whence the Greek poet of the chase has derived the manners, dress, and weapons of his hunter: Oppian. Cyneget. 1. 81. The curious reader will be amused with the illustration of Xenophon's second chapter; of Gratius's Cynegeticon, v. 332. and Oppian loc. cit. (all treating on the subject of the hunter's character, &c.) in Edmund de Langley's Mapster of Game; wherein (c. xix.

Natalis Comes de Venatione L. IV.