beat about, being drawn up in a regular rank; and, having proceeded in a direct line to a certain point, wheeling round, they turn about together towards the place from whence they ſet out by the fame way they came, leaving, as far as poſſible, no likely place unexplored. If many dogs are taken out, they ſhould not be ſtationed promiſcuouſly; for, when the Hare is ſtarted, no one will refrain from ſlipping his own dog, each being deſirous of ſeeing his own dog run, and the Hare, confuſed and terrified by the noiſe and number of the dogs, will be taken without ſhewing any ſport, and the diverſion, which is the chief
I will take the words of Blancard himſelf, in his tranſlation of the Tactica of this author, and in the ſame volume: "Κλίσις eſt motus qui fit a viris ſingulis; Ἐπιϛοϕὴ autem eft cum ſyntagma totum condenſatum, velut unius viri corpus, in haſtam vel in clypeum inclinamus." In modern military language the one is a turn, or face,the other a wheel. The reaſon of the wheel is obvious, viz. that in returning the way they came, παρὰ τὰ αὐτὰ, διὰ τῶν αὐτῶν, (a ſentence copied from Xenophon, ſee p. 26,) they might not exactly beat the ſame tract, but take freſh ground. I need not add, that this is exactly the way of beating for a Hare in courſing, both on foot and on horfeback.
