[9] Wrought of copper (or bronze).

The foot-traps should resemble those used for deer.

These hunts should be conducted not singly,[10] but in parties, since
the wild boar can be captured only by the collective energy of several
men, and that not easily.

[10] Lit. "There should be a band of huntsmen"; or, "It will take the
united energies of several to capture this game." See Hom. "Il."
ix. 543, of the Calydonian boar:

{ton d' uios Oineos apekteinen Meleagros,
polleon ek polion theretoras andras ageiras
kai kunas . ou men gar k' edame pauroisi brotoisin
tossos een, pollous de pures epebes' alegeines.}

"But him slew Meleagros the son of Oineus, having gathered
together from many cities huntsmen and hounds; for not of few men
could the boar be slain, so mighty was he; and many an one brought
he to the grievous pyre" (W. Leaf).

I will now explain how each part of the gear is to be used in hunting.

The company being come to some place where a boar is thought to lie,
the first step is to bring up the pack,[11] which done, they will
loose a single Laconian bitch, and keeping the rest in leash, beat
about with this one hound.[12] As soon as she has got on the boar's
track, let them follow in order, one after another, close on the
tracking hound, who gives the lead to the whole company.[13] Even to