quarry, should it chance to be a stag, or he will lunge out with his
antlers and his feet; better therefore let fly your javelins from a
distance.

These animals may also be captured without aid of gin or caltrop, by
sheer coursing in hot summer time; they get so tired, they will stand
still to be shot down. If hard pressed they will plunge into the sea
or take to water of any sort in their perplexity, and at times will
drop down from sheer want of breath.[36]

[36] "From mere shortness of breath."



X

To cope with the wild boar the huntsman needs to have a variety of
dogs, Indian, Cretan, Locrian, and Laconian,[1] along with a stock of
nets, javelins, boar-spears, and foot-traps.

[1] For these breeds see Pollux, v. 37: for the Laconian, Pind. "Fr."
73; Soph. "Aj." 8; cf. Shakesp. "Mids. N. D." iv. 1. 119, 129
foll.

To begin with, the hounds must be no ordinary specimens of the species
named,[2] in order to do battle with the beast in question.

[2] Or, "these hounds of the breed named must not be any ordinary
specimens"; but what does Xenophon mean by {ek toutou tou genous}?