will stand upon and trample him.

[26] {epanieis}. See Sturz, s.v.

[27] Lit. "forwards the left foot will follow the left arm and the
right foot the other."

[28] "Statum venatoris aprum venabulo excipientis pinxit
Philostratus," "Imag." i. 28, Schn.

[29] Or, "he will step forward and take one stride not much longer
than that of a wrestler, and thrust forward his boar-spear."

[30] Cf. Hes. "Shield," 387; Hom. "Il." xii. 148: "Then forth rushed
the twain, and fought in front of the gates like wild boars that
in the mountains abide the assailing crew of men and dogs, and
charging on either flank they crush the wood around them, cutting
it at the root, and the clatter of their tusks waxes loud, till
one smite them and take their life away" (A. Lang).

From this extremity there is but one means of escape, and one alone,
for the luckless prisoner. One of his fellow-huntsmen must approach
with boar-spear and provoke the boar, making as though he would let
fly at him; but let fly he must not, for fear of hitting the man under
him. The boar, on seeing this, will leave the fallen man, and in rage
and fury turn to grapple his assailant. The other will seize the
instant to spring to his feet, and not forget to clutch his boar-spear
as he rises to his legs again; since rescue cannot be nobly purchased
save by victory.[31] Let him again bring the weapon to bear in the
same fashion, and make a lunge at a point within the shoulder-blade,