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The Sportsman by Xenophon
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[4] Or, "defective specimens (that is to say, the majority) are to be
noted, as follows."

[5] {grupai}.

[6] {kharopoi}. Al. Arrian, iv. 4, 5.

[7] Or, "will probably retire from the chase and throw up the business
through mere diminutiveness."

[8] Or, "a hook-nosed (? pig-jawed, see Stonehenge, "The Dog," p. 19,
4th ed.) dog has a bad mouth and cannot hold."

[9] Or, "a short-sighted, wall-eyed dog has defective vision."

[10] Or, "they are weedy, ugly brutes as a rule."

[11] Or, "stiffness of limbs means he will come off." Cf. "Mem." III.
xiii. 6.

[12] Lit. "a weak, thinly-haired animal is incapable of severe toil."

[13] Or, "Nor will courage compensate for unsound feet. The toil and
moil will be too great to endure, and owing to the pains in his
feet he will in the end give in."

Similarly many different modes of hunting a line of scent are to be
seen in the same species of hound.[14] One dog as soon as he has found
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