[45] Lit. "it will not be at any rate from behaving correctly."

Foot-traps are also set for the wild boar, similar to those for deer
and in the same sort of places; the same inspections and methods of
pursuit are needed, with consequent attacks and an appeal to the boar-
spear in the end.

Any attempt to capture the young pigs will cost the huntsman some
rough work.[46] The young are not left alone, as long as they are
small; and when the hounds have hit upon them or they get wind of
something wrong, they will disappear like magic, vanishing into the
forest. As a rule, both parents attend on their own progeny, and are
not pleasant then to meddle with, being more disposed to do battle for
their young than for themselves.

[46] Lit. "the piglings will resent it (sc. {to aliskesthai})
strongly"; al. "the adult (sub. {to therion}) will stand anything
rather."



XI

Lions, leopards, lynxes, panthers, bears and all other such game are
to be captured in foreign countries--about Mount Pangaeus and Cittus
beyond Macedonia;[1] or again, in Nysa beyond Syria, and upon other
mountains suited to the breeding of large game.

[1] Of these places, Mt. Pangaeus (mod. Pirnari) (see "Hell." V. ii.