You should have coriander seed so fine
That, when we've got some hares, we may be able
To sprinkle them with that small seed and salt.
62. And Tryphon says,—"Aristophanes, in his Danaides, uses the form λαγὼν in the accusative case with an acute accent on the last syllable, and with a ν for the final letter, saying—
And when he starts perhaps he may be able
To help us catch a hare (λαγών).
And in his Daitaleis he says—
I am undone, I shall be surely seen
Plucking the fur from off the hare (λαγών).
But Xenophon, in his treatise on Hunting, writes the accusative λαγω without the ν, and with a circumflex accent. But among us the ordinary form of the nominative case is λαγός; and as we say ναὸς, and the Attics νεὼς, and as we say λαὸς, and the Attics λεώς; so, while we call this animal λαγὸς, they call him λαγώς. And as for our using the form λαγὸν in the accusative case singular, to that we find a corresponding nominative plural in Sophocles, in his Amycus, a satyric drama; where he enumerates—
HARES.
Cranes, crows, and owls, and kites, and hares (λαγοι).
But there is also a form of the nominative plural corresponding to the accusative λαγὼν, ending in ω, as found in the Flatterers of Eupolis—
Where there are rays, and hares (λαγὼ), and light-footed women.