[2] {meteora}, prominent. ?See Sturz, s.v.

[3] {tas diakriseis batheias}, lit. "with a deep frontal sinus."

[4] Reading {makra}, or if {mikra}, "small."

[5] Al. "well rounded."

[6] "Shoulder blades standing out a little from the shoulders"; i.e.
"free."

[7] i.e. "not wholly given up to depth, but well curved"; depth is not
everything unless the ribs be also curved. Schneid. cf. Ov. "Met."
iii. 216, "et substricta gerens Sicyonius ilia Ladon," where the
poet is perhaps describing a greyhound, "chyned like a bream." See
Stonehenge, pp. 21, 22. Xenophon's "Castorians" were more like the
Welsh harrier in build, I presume.

[8] Or, "neither soft and spongy nor unyielding." See Stoneh., p. 23.

[9] "Drawn up underneath it," lit. "tucked up."

[10] Al. "flank," "flanks themselves."

[11] Or, as we should say, "stern." See Pollux, v. 59; Arrian, v. 9.

[12] See Stonehenge, p. 24 foll.

Hounds possessed of these points will be strong in build, and at the
same time light and active; they will have symmetry at once and pace;