At ille, ut altis hispidus silvis aper;

Cum, casse vinctus, tentat egressus tamen,

Arctatque motu vincla, et incassum furit,

Cupit, fluentes undique et cæcos sinus

Disjicere, et hostem quærit implicitus suum.

[686] Or, ἀρκύστατον, ed. Schütz. l. 1376.

[687] Orestes, 1405, s. 1421.

[688] L. 886-890.

Part of the apparatus of a huntsman consisted in the stakes which he drove into the ground to support his nets, and which Antipater Sidonius thus describes:

Καὶ πυρὶ θηγαλέους ὀξυπαγεῖς στάλικας;