Note 249 — ARRIAN ON COURSING.

Ἐπὶ δὲ δορκάδι τέσσαρας δραχμάς. The tetradrachm of silver was worth four drachmas, or three shillings sterling—a high valuation of the roe-deer, an animal of chase, rather scarce in the British Isles, but at all times, I believe, abundant in France.Mayster of Game. c. v. fol. 30. De Langley calls the roe “a good litel beest, and goodly for to hunte to.”