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for them to roll on the ground, as we fee horſes do; for, by that means, they will not ſeem tired, and, at the ſame time, will recover their fatigue.
Thoſe who have not good Hare-finders, go commonly out, a number in company, on horſeback; and, coming to a likely place, when they happen to ſtart a Hare, let the greyhounds looſe after her. But thoſe, who are more diligent after the ſport, go out on foot; and, if any one accompanies them on horſeback, it is his buſineſs to follow the dogs when they run. [1] They
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- ↑ Ἐκπερίασιν δὲ ἐπὶ μετώποȣ ταχθέντες, ἔπειτα ἐπ' εὐθείας προσελθόντε ὅσον ξυμμέτρον διανύσαι, ἐπιϛρέψαντες αὖ ἅμα κάμπτȣσιν παρὰ τὰ αὐτὰ διὰ τῶν αὐτῶν. Of which Blancard gives the following extraordinary interpretation: "Circumeunt autem fronte ſibi invicem obverſi: dein refta ad juſtum aliquod ſpatim progreſſi, rurſus per eadem loca, eodemque tramite, iter fleftunt." "They go round, being drawn up oppoſite each other; and, proceeding ſtraight forwards to a certain ſpace, return to the ſame place, by the ſame way they came," I believe this manœuvre would be very difficult to execute. To draw up, or march, ἐπὶ μετώπȣ was a military expreſſion, exactly equivalent with our ſaying, in battalion; that is, with an extended front; or, in Dr. Hutchinſon's words, "Exercitum recta fronte et bene compoſita ducere." For the meaning of ἐπιϛρέψαντες
