Note 157 — ARRIAN ON COURSING.
William Dansey translation
Xenophon de Venat. c. vi. 9. ἀναβοᾷν εὖγε, εὖγε ὦ κύνες, ἕπεσθε ὦ κύνες. He gives a different cheer at different parts of the chase. Pollux explains the whistling halloo by the significant verb ἐπισίξαι—jubilationibus solitis canes cohortari et feris immittere—
Ovid. Metam. L. iii.
At comites rabidum solitis hortatibus agmen Ignari instigant.
So Venus in pursuit of her beloved Adonis,
Ovid. Metam. L. x. 535.
Per juga, per silvas, dumosaque saxa vagatur Nuda genu, vestem ritu succincta Dianæ; Hortaturque canes, &c.
Propert. L. ii. El. xviii. ad Cynthiam.
Incipiam captare feras, et reddere pinu Cornua, et audaces ipse monere canes.
Nemesian approaches nearer to the text, in his probable allusion to the same variety of sound;
Cyneget. v. 196.
Necnon consuetæ norint hortamina vocis, Seu cursus revocent, jubeant seu tendere cursus.
But Arrian means more than is expressed in either of these passages: by ὀνομαστὶ ἐπιλέγειν we are to understand speaking to, and cheering the hounds by name; as in the following chapter—εὖγε ὦ Κιῤῥὰ, εὖγε ὦ Βόννα, καλῶς γε ὦ Ὁρμὴ—