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Sometimes they [lions] run away stretch<strong>in</strong>g the tail straight out like hounds. A lion has<br />

been seen before now to attack a pig, <strong>and</strong> runn<strong>in</strong>g away when it saw it bristl<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong><br />

defence. Agianst blows to the flanks it is weak, but it can take many over the rest <strong>of</strong> its<br />

body <strong>and</strong> its head is strong. Whatever it has bitten or wounded with its claws, the<br />

wounds run with ichors which are deep yellow <strong>and</strong> cannot be washed out <strong>of</strong> the b<strong>and</strong>ages<br />

<strong>and</strong> sponges. <strong>The</strong> treatment is the same as for wounds caused by dogbite.<br />

69<br />

Aristotle, Magna Moralia 1208b IV B.C.<br />

Text <strong>and</strong> translation: G. C. Armstrong, ed., tr., Aristotle. <strong>The</strong> Oeconomica <strong>and</strong> Magna<br />

Moralia (London <strong>and</strong> Cambridge, Mass., 1935).<br />

fasi\n de\ kai\ kuno&j pote a)ei\ kaqeudou&shj e0pi\ th~j au)th~j kerami=doj,<br />

e0rwthqe/nta to_n 0Empedokle/a, dia_ ti/ pote h( ku&wn e0pi\ th~j au)th~j kerami=doj<br />

kaqeu&dei,ei0pei=n o3ti e1xei ti th|~ kerami=di o3moion h( ku&wn, w(j dia_ to_ o3moion th_n ku&na<br />

foitw~san.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re is also a story <strong>of</strong> a dog that always would sleep upon the same tile; <strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong> how<br />

Empedocles, when asked why it did so, declared that there was some aff<strong>in</strong>ity between the<br />

dog <strong>and</strong> the tile which caused the former always to seek the latter.<br />

70<br />

Arrian, Cynegeticus 8.1-8.2 A.D. II<br />

Text: A.G. Roos <strong>and</strong> G. Wirth, eds., Flavii Arriani quae Exstant Omnia II. Scripta<br />

M<strong>in</strong>ora et Fragmenta (first corr. ed.; Leipzig, 1968).<br />

Translation: D. B. Hull, Hounds <strong>and</strong> Hunt<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> Ancient <strong>Greece</strong> (Chicago <strong>and</strong> London,<br />

1964).<br />

e0sqi/ous<strong>in</strong> de\ ai4 me\n la&brwj ai4 de\ kosmi/wj, kai\ to_ ko&smion gennaio&teron tou~<br />

a)ko&smou. a)gaqai\ de\ o3sai mh_ kako&sitoi, a)ll' a1rtw| h2 ma&zh| xai/rous<strong>in</strong>: kra&tiston<br />

ga_r kuni\ tou~to siti/on, kai\ ou) de/oj mh_ u(peremplhsqei/h a)p' au)tou~. a1me<strong>in</strong>on de\ ei0<br />

kai\ chra|~ th|~ tr<strong>of</strong>h|~ xai/roien. ei0 de\ kai\ u3dati katabre/xoij kai\ tou&tw| xai/roien, ou)<br />

kako&n.<br />

Enjoy wheat bread or barley bread, for this food is best for a hound <strong>and</strong> there is no fear<br />

lest they be filled too full <strong>of</strong> it. <strong>The</strong>n it is better if they like their food dry, but even if you<br />

soak it <strong>in</strong> water <strong>and</strong> they like it, it is not bad.<br />

71<br />

Arrian, Cynegeticus 9.1-9.2 A.D. II<br />

Text: A.G. Roos <strong>and</strong> G. Wirth, eds., Flavii Arriani quae Exstant Omnia II. Scripta<br />

M<strong>in</strong>ora et Fragmenta (first corr. ed.; Leipzig, 1968).<br />

Translation: D. B. Hull, Hounds <strong>and</strong> Hunt<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> Ancient <strong>Greece</strong> (Chicago <strong>and</strong> London,<br />

1964).<br />

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