Note 136 — ARRIAN ON COURSING.
William Dansey translation
Ἀπεπνίγησαν ὑπὸ τοῦ ἄσθματος. Such accidents usually happen from running greyhounds when out of wind, and condition. The state of the muscular and respiratory systems are always in fault—
Oppian. Cyneg. i. 86.
τῷ μὴ πιαλέοι θήρης ἐπὶ μῶλον ἴοιεν μηδέ τε λεπταλέοι.
But the safest plan is to leave the greyhounds in a cool and shady kennel during the intense heat of a midsummer day—if exercised at all, the earlier they have their airing, the better.
Petr. Lotich. Secund. Ecl. ii. Viburnus Venator.
Lyc. Ad fluvium duc, Daphni, canes, (vocat æstus in umbram,) Nec catulos virides sine lascivire per herbas. Eja agedum, requiesce Lacon, requiesce Lycarba, Fervidus Hesperias dum sol declinet in undas.