shing along and tumbling over one
another. (31)

(26) Or, {misotheron}, "out of antipathy to the quarry." For
{philanthropon} cf. Pollux, ib. 64; Hermog. ap. L. Dind.

(27) Or, "unable apparently to distinguish false from true." See
Sturz, s.v. {poieisthai}. Cf. Plut. "de Exil." 6. Al. "Gaily
substituting false for true."

(28) "In the heat of the chase."

(29) "Rush to attack it."

(30) The fact is, there are as many different modes of following up
the chase almost as there are dogs. Some follow up the chase
{asaphos}, indistinctly; some {polu upolambanousai}, with a good
deal of guess-work; others again {doxazousai}, without conviction,
insincerely; others, {peplasmenos}, out of mere pretence, pure
humbug, make-believe, or {phthoneros}, in a fit of jealousy,
{ekkunousi}, are skirters; al. {ekkinousi}, Sturz, quit the scent.

(31) Al. "unceasingly tearing along, around, and about it."

The majority of these defects are due to natural disposition, though
some must be assigned no doubt to want of scientific training. In either
case such hounds are useless, and may well deter the keenest sportsman
from the hunting field. (32)

(32) Or, "Naturally, dogs like these damp the sportsman's ardour, and
indeed are enough to sicken him altogether with the chase."

The characters, bodily and other, exhibited by the finer specimens of
the same breed, (33) I will now set forth.

(33) Or, "The features, points, qualities, whether physical or other,
which characterise the better individuals." But what does Xenophon
mean by {tou autou genous}?

IV

In the first place, this true type of hound should be of large build;
and, in the next place, furnished with a light small head, broad and
flat in the snout, (1) well knit and sinewy, the lower part of the
forehead puckered into strong wrinkles; eyes set well up (2) in the
head, black and bright; forehead large and broad; the depression between
the eyes pronounced; (3) ears long (4) and thin, without hair on the
under side; neck long and flexible, freely moving on its pivot; (5)
chest broad and fairly fleshy; shoulder-blades detached a little from
the shoulders; (6) the shin-bones of the fore-legs should be small,
straight, round, stout and strong; the elbows straight; ribs (7) not
deep all along, but sloped away obliquely; the loins muscular, in size
a mean between long and short, neither too flexible nor too stiff; (