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appear to have been occaſioned by negligence, but from his ignorance of [1] greyhounds and of the uſe of Scythian and Libyan horſes. Theſe things I ſhall treat of, being of the ſame [2] name and country, and from my youth addicted to the ſame purſuits of War, Hunting, and Philoſophy; juſt: as he, when he thought proper to write concerning thoſe matters relating to Horſemanſhip, which were omitted by Simo, did not do it by way of entering into a competition with [3] Simo, but that his Treatiſe might be uſeful to mankind.
- ↑ Courſing being firſt uſed by the Gauls, a Greyhound was called Κυὼν Κελτικὸς, and in Latin Canis Gallicus.
- ↑ Arrian was a military officer under the Emperor Hadrian. He was a native of Nicomedia, in Bithynia; but, being admitted to the freedom of Athens, being a ſoldier alſo, and a diſciple of Epictetus, as Xenophon was of Socrates, he was fond of imitating him in his ſtyle and manner of writing, as well as in the ſubjects he wrote on, calling himſelf Ξενοφῶν ὁ δεύτερος, The Second Xenophon.
- ↑ Xenophon, ſpeaking of Simo, ſays, "Wherever I think with him, I ſhall not leave it out of my own Treatiſe, but the more readily communicate it to my friends, thinking they will eſteem my ſentiments more worthy of credit for coinciding with thoſe of ſo ſkilful a Horſeman. But what he has omitted I ſhall endeavour to ſupply."
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