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no way Inferior except in ſpeed, to the Carian and Cretan dogs; ſo that, in the winter, it is very well if they [1] kill one Hare, as they require ſo long a time to reſt, unleſs ſhe is taken by being aſtoniſhied at the noiſe they make. Theſe are called [2] Seguſii, from a part of Gallia, where I ſuppoſe they are bred, and held in eſteem. As for theſe, every thing that can be ſaid concerning them has already been ſaid by [3] Xenophon; for they have nothing peculiar or different in their manner of hunting or finding, unleſs we were to ſpeak of their form, which is hardly worth while, except
- ↑ In the text of Blancard's Arrian it is κατακίνοιεν, "if they move;" but he adds in a note, Lege cum libro ſcripto κατακαίνοιεν. I have preferred the MS. though there is a difficulty in both readings. Unleſs ſhe is taken," εἰ μὴ ἀλὼη, can only refer to the laſt word; but the making it not unuſual for theſe finders, who are allowed to be ſlower than Xenophon's hounds, to kill one Hare a day, ſeems extraordinary, after what he has ſaid before.
- ↑ In the text of Blancard's Edition, it is Εγεσίαι, Eguſiæ, But he ſays, in a note, Sic quoque codex noſter, ſed legendum Seguſii. Seguſia is a town of Piedmont, now called Suſe. H. Stephens propoſes Accuſii, the antient name for Grenoble being Accusiorum Colonia.
- ↑ Πρὸς Ξενοϕῶντος του πάλαι.
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