17), Cittus (s. Cissus, mod. Khortiatzi), N. W. of the Chalcidice,
Mysian Olympus, and Pindus are well known. Nysa has not been
verified hitherto, I think. Sturz cf. Bochart, "Hieroz." Part I.
lib. iii. c. 1, p. 722. Strabo, 637 (xv. 1. 7), mentions a Mount
Nysa in India sacred to Dionysus, and cites Soph. "Frag." 782--

{othen kateidon ton bebakkhiomenen
brotoisi kleinon Nusan . . . k.t.l.},

but it is a far cry from Xenophon's Syria to India. Possibly it is
to be sought for in the region of Mt. Amanus.

In the mountains, owing to the difficulty of the ground,[2] some of
these animals are captured by means of poison--the drug aconite--which
the hunters throw down for them,[3] taking care to mix it with the
favourite food of the wild best, near pools and drinking-places or
wherever else they are likely to pay visits. Others of them, as they
descend into the plains at night, may be cut off by parties mounted
upon horseback and well armed, and so captured, but not without
causing considerable danger to their captors.[4]

[2] Or, "the inaccessibility of their habitats."

[3] "The method is for the trapper to throw it down mixed with the
food which the particular creature likes best."

[4] For the poison method see Pollux, v. 82; Plin. "H. N." viii. 27.

In some cases the custom is to construct large circular pits of some
depth, leaving a single pillar of earth in the centre, on the top of