[27] Or, "unable apparently to distinguish false from true." See
Sturz, s.v. {poieisthai}. Cf. Plut. "de Exil." 6. Al. "Gaily
substituting false for true."

[28] "In the heat of the chase."

[29] "Rush to attack it."

[30] The fact is, there are as many different modes of following up
the chase almost as there are dogs. Some follow up the chase
{asaphos}, indistinctly; some {polu upolambanousai}, with a good
deal of guess-work; others again {doxazousai}, without conviction,
insincerely; others, {peplasmenos}, out of mere pretence, pure
humbug, make-believe, or {phthoneros}, in a fit of jealousy,
{ekkunousi}, are skirters; al. {ekkinousi}, Sturz, quit the scent.

[31] Al. "unceasingly tearing along, around, and about it."

The majority of these defects are due to natural disposition, though
some must be assigned no doubt to want of scientific training. In
either case such hounds are useless, and may well deter the keenest
sportsman from the hunting field.[32]

[32] Or, "Naturally, dogs like these damp the sportsman's ardour, and
indeed are enough to sicken him altogether with the chase."

The characters, bodily and other, exhibited by the finer specimens of
the same breed,[33] I will now set forth.

[33] Or, "The features, points, qualities, whether physical or other,