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Hare Hunting,
ſo ſtronger in woody places than in open ones, for there, ſometimes running, and ſometimes ſitting, ſhe is touched by many things.
She makes her ſeat under, upon, or within, every thing the earth bears on its ſurface, near or diſtant, ſometimes continuing a long time, ſometimes a ſhort time, ſometimes between both; ſometimes throwing herſelf as far as ſhe is able into the ſea, or other water, if any thing ſtands above it, or grows out of it.
[1] The trail of the Hare is the path ſhe takes going to her ſeat, which, in cold weather, will generally be in ſheltered places, and, in hot, in ſhady places. But her
- ↑ It is impoſſible to tranſlate this paſſage more literally, as Xenophon explains one Greek word by another. He had before uſed the word εύναιος to expreſs a Hare going to her ſeat, in contradiſtinction to her running when purſued; and which he now explains ο μέν ούν εύναιος, ποιούμενος ευνήν.The Latin tranſlator, by not attending to this, has made nonſenſe of this paſſage. "Lepus cubans eſt qui cubile fibi ſtruit." "A Hare is ſaid to be lying when ſhe is making her form."
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