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Arrian on coursing

Note 193 — ARRIAN ON COURSING.

William Dansey translation

Ἐλάφους ἢ δορκάδας. I take ἐλάφος to be the red deer, the cervus elaphus of naturalists; and δόρκας the roe deer, cervus capreolus, the chevreuil of France. To these the poet of Cyneg. ii. v. 293.Anazarbus adds the fallow deer, under the name of εὐρυκέρωτες.

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