Note 47 — ARRIAN ON COURSING.

Εἰ παραδράμοι τὰς ἄρκυς—if she pass by the tunnel or purse-nets without entering their mouths. The ἄρκυες or casses were placed, here and there, in the line of the main hayes, δίκτυα or retia; and as the hare passed along exploring a place of escape, terrified by the formido above, and the meshes below, (continuous except where the purse-nets with the running noose, βρόχος or laqueus, were introduced,) she attempted to pass at the supposed opening, and became by her struggles entangled in the purse, which immediately closed at its slip-knot entrance. Arrian, perhaps, uses the term ἄρκυς generically for every variety of net, and not specifically for the tunnel. See the Venationes Ferarum of Johannes Stradensis and Philippus Galle, tab. xviii. “Sic leporem in laqueos agitant,” &c.