captured in spring, that being the
season at which the dams calve. (5) Some one should go beforehand
into the rank meadowlands (6) and reconnoitre where the hinds are
congregated, and wherever that may be, the master of the hounds will set
off--with his hounds and a supply of javelins--before daylight to the
place in question. Here he will attach the hounds to trees (7) some
distance off, for fear of their barking, (8) when they catch sight of
the deer. That done he will choose a specular point himself and keep a
sharp look-out. (9) As day breaks he will espy the hinds leading their
fawns to the places where they will lay them severally to rest. (10)
Having made them lie down and suckled them, they will cast anxious
glances this way and that to see that no one watches them; and then they
will severally withdraw to the side opposite and mount guard, each over
her own offspring. The huntsman, who has seen it all, (11) will loose
the dogs, and with javelins in hand himself advance towards the nearest
fawn in the direction of where he saw it laid to rest; carefully noting
the lie of the land, (12) for fear of making some mistake; since the
place itself will present a very different aspect on approach from what
it looked like at a distance.

(4) See above, v. 14. I do not know that any one has answered
Schneider's question: Quidni sensum eundem servavit homo
religiosus in hinnulis?

(5) "The fawns (of the roe deer) are born in the spring, usually early
in May," Lydekker, "R. N. H." ii. p. 383; of the red deer
"generally in the early part of June," ib. 346.

(6) {orgadas} = "gagnages," du Fouilloux, "Comment le veneur doit
aller en queste aux taillis ou gaignages pour voir le cerf a
veue," ap. Talbot, op. cit. i. p. 331.

(7) Or, "off the wood."

(8) It seems they were not trained to restrain themselves.

(9) Or, "set himself to observe from some higher place." Cf. Aristoph.
"Wasps," 361, {nun de xun oplois} | {andres oplitai diataxamenoi}
| {kata tas diodous skopiorountai}. Philostr. 784.

(10) See Pollux, v. 77; Aristot. "H. A." ix. 5. Mr. Scrope ap.
Lydekker, "R. N. H." ii. p. 346, states that the dam of the red
deer makes her offspring "lie down by a pressure of her nose,"
etc.

(11) Lit. "when he sees these things."

(12) Or, "the features of the scene"; "the topography."

When his eye has lit upon the object of his search, he will approach
quite close. T