[28] Or, "will make the running over the first ring."

To find the trail you must work the dogs downwards through the
cultivated lands, beginning at the top. Any hares that do not come
into the tilled districts must be sought in the meadows and the
glades; near rivulets, among the stones, or in woody ground. If the
quarry makes off,[29] there should be no shouting, that the hounds may
not grow too eager and fail to discover the line. When found by the
hounds, and the chase has begun, the hare will at times cross streams,
bend and double and creep for shelter into clefts and crannied
lurking-places;[30] since they have not only the hounds to dread, but
eagles also; and, so long as they are yearlings, are apt to be carried
off in the clutches of these birds, in the act of crossing some slope
or bare hillside. When they are bigger they have the hounds after them
to hunt them down and make away with them. The fleetest-footed would
appear to be those of the low marsh lands. The vagabond kind[31]
addicted to every sort of ground are difficult to hunt, for they know
the short cuts, running chiefly up steeps or across flats, over
inequalities unequally, and downhill scarcely at all.

[29] Or, "shifts her ground."

[30] Or, "in their terror not of dogs only, but of eagles, since up to
a year old they are liable to be seized by these birds of prey
while crossing some bottom or bare ground, while if bigger . . ."

[31] {oi . . . planetai}, see Ael. op. cit. xiii. 14.

Whilst being hunted they are most visible in crossing ground that has