Note 291 — ARRIAN ON COURSING.
William Dansey translation
Ἀπαρχὰς τῶν ἁλισκομένων ἀνατιθέναι. The ἀπαρχαὶ, or first-fruits of animal sacrifices, were small pieces of flesh cut from every part of the beast, and offered to the gods, (see Homer, passim): but hunters, according toLexicon Antiq. Roman. Pitiscus, dedicated to the Goddess of the Chase the head, horns, feet, skin, &c. of the slaughtered game; to which custom Nisus alludes in his invocation to Diana:
Æneid. L. ix. 406.
Si qua tuis unquam pro me pater Hyrtacus aris Doma tulit, si qua ipse meis venatibus auxi, Suspendive tholo, aut sacra ad fastigia fixi: Hunc sine me, &c.