which characterise the better indidivuals." But what does Xenophon
mean by {tou autou genous}?



IV

In the first place, this true type of hound should be of large build;
and, in the next place, furnished with a light small head, broad and
flat in the snout,[1] well knit and sinewy, the lower part of the
forehead puckered into strong wrinkles; eyes set well up[2] in the
head, black and bright; forehead large and broad; the depression
between the eyes pronounced;[3] ears long[4] and thin, without hair on
the under side; neck long and flexible, freely moving on its pivot;[5]
chest broad and fairly fleshy; shoulder-blades detached a little from
the shoulders;[6] the shin-bones of the fore-legs should be small,
straight, round, stout and strong; the elbows straight; ribs[7] not
deep all along, but sloped away obliquely; the loins muscular, in size
a mean between long and short, neither too flexible nor too stiff;[8]
flanks, a mean between large and small; the hips (or "couples")
rounded, fleshy behind, not tied together above, but firmly knitted on
the inside;[9] the lower or under part of the belly[10] slack, and the
belly itself the same, that is, hollow and sunken; tail long,
straight, and pointed;[11] thighs (i.e. hams) stout and compact;
shanks (i.e. lower thighs) long, round, and solid; hind-legs much
longer than the fore-legs, and relatively lean; feet round and cat-
like.[12]

[1] Pollux, v. 7; Arrian, "Cyn." iv.