Note 85 — ARRIAN ON COURSING.
William Dansey translation
The modern courser prefers the small ears of the Oppianic hound,
Oppian. Cyneg. i. v. 403.
βαιὰ δ’ ὕπερθεν οὔατα λεπταλέοισι περιστέλλοινθ’ ὑμένεσσι:
and excludes the pricked ear, the “rectæ aures” of Fracastor. Albertus recommends Chap. xv. fol. 66.“aures acutæ retrorsùm directæ, et parvæ:” the Mayster of Game, “the eerys smal and hie in the maner of a serpent:” Gervase Markham, “a sharp ear, short, and close-falling:” but the most correct notion of the ears of a perfect greyhound is imparted in the line
Nemesian. Cyneget. 113.
Cuique nimis molles fluitent in cursibus aures—
of the Carthaginian poet.