[774]. Xen. Cyneg. xi. 2. Poll. v. 82. Plin. viii. 27. Dioscor. iv. 77. Foxes were supposed to be killed by baits steeped in the juice of bitter almonds (Id. i. 176); wolves, panthers, dogs, &c. by dog’s-bane.—Id. iv. 81.
[775]. Oppian. de Venat. iv. 85. sqq.
[776]. Cf. Hesych. v. Λυκαβ.
[777]. Ad D. Laert. p. 20. b. c. Meurs. Solon, c. 19.
[778]. The very name of the Cretans has by some been derived from the use of the bow. Κρῆτες, παρὰ τὸ ἐπὶ κέρασι βιοτεύειν· κυνηγετικοὶ γάρ. Etym. Mag. 537. 54. See in Homer a description of the bow of Pandaros where we are told it was made from the horns of a wild goat.—Il. δ. 105. sqq.
[779]. Ælian. Var. Hist. i. 10. On the cothurnos which these hunters wore, see Spanheim ad Callim. in Dian. 16. p. 142. sqq. Bœttig. Les Furies, p. 37. The high half-boot worn by Artemis in the chase is represented in Mus. Chiaramon. pl. 18.
[780]. Athen. xii. 28. Meurs. Cret. p. 177.
[781]. Athen. xii. 55. Plut. Alex. § 40. See in Wase’s Illustrations, p. 68. an account of the Polish royal hunts in which, on a smaller scale, the same practice prevailed.
[782]. Athen. i. 31.
[783]. Ap. Ælian. de Nat. Anim. iv. 26.