[23] Or, "a pretty chase must follow."

[24] Or, "if within the prison of the net the ground be sloping, it
will not take long to make him spring up; he will be up again on
his legs in no time."

[25] Or, "being concerned about himself."

Should the animal for all that rain of javelins and stones refuse to
stretch the skirting-rope, should he rather relax[26] in that
direction and make a right-about-face turn bearing down on his
assailant, there is nothing for it, under these circumstances, but to
seize a boar-spear, and advance; firmly clutching it with the left
hand forward and with the right behind; the left is to steady it, and
the right to give it impulse; and so the feet,[27] the left advanced
in correspondence with the left arm, and right with right. As he
advances, he will make a lunge forward with the boar-spear,[27]
planting his legs apart not much wider than in wrestling,[28] and
keeping his left side turned towards his left hand; and then, with his
eye fixed steadily on the beast's eye, he will note every turn and
movement of the creature's head. As he brings down the boar-spear to
the thrust, he must take good heed the animal does not knock it out of
his hands by a side movement of the head;[29] for if so he will follow
up the impetus of that rude knock. In case of that misfortune, the
huntsman must throw himself upon his face and clutch tight hold of the
brushwood under him, since if the wild boar should attack him in that
posture, owing to the upward curve of its tusks, it cannot get under
him;[30] whereas if caught erect, he must be wounded. What will happen
then is, that the beast will try to raise him up, and failing that