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alone to purſue her flight in caſe ſhe eſcaped the nets; for the death of the Game being the chief object of the chace in the woody and mountainous regions of Greece, it muſt be acknowledged that Xenophon adviſes means to accompliſh that end, which would ſubject him to the appellation of Poacher from the modern fair Sportſman. And, as the evidence of [1] Arrian confirms this, and
- ↑ Arrian was a military Officer under the Emperor Hadrian: being a follower of Epictetus, as Xenophon was of Socrates, he was fond of comparing himſelf to the illuſtrious Athenian, writing on the ſame ſubjefts, and calling himſelf, with no ſmall degree of preſumption, the Second Xenophon. He wrote a Treatiſe on Hunting, intended as a ſupplement to that of Xenophon, and which is, in fact, an account of the method of courſing uſed in his time, in which he ſays, "Xenophon, the ſon of Gryllus, has given an account of Hunting, particularly of Hare-hunting, and the uſe of that exerciſe to the art of war; but as he has taken no notice of Greyhounds, which were not then known in Greece, I ſhall ſupply that deficiency."
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