Note 63 — ARRIAN ON COURSING.
William Dansey translation
Καὶ μὴν καὶ αἱ μείζονες—εὐφυέστεραι τῶν σμικρῶν.
Our most distinguished modern greyhounds, as Millar, “facilis cui plurima palma,” Snowball, and others, have been large dogs, lengthy, muscular, and low on the legs:
Sir Walter Scott.
Who knows not Snowball? he whose race renown’d Is still victorious on each coursing ground? Swaffham, Newmarket, and the Roman Camp, Have seen them victors o’er each meaner stamp.
If we qualify the size by the conditions laid down by Aristotle in the ἀρεταὶ σώματος, we shall probably hit the mark as to Rhetoric. L. i. c. v.μέγεθος, whose ἀρετὴ is defined τὸ ὑπερέχειν κατὰ τὸ μῆκος, καὶ βάθος, καὶ πλάτος, τῶν πολλῶν, τοσούτῳ μείζονι, ὥστε μὴ βραδυτέρας ποιεῖν τὰς κινήσεις διὰ τὴν ὑπερβολήν.