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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: purpose they make the line intricate as described.
[12] i.e. "with the scent into a composite and confusing whole."
[13] Or, "owing to the relaxed condition of their frames."
[14] Lit. "The fruity odours do not, as commingling currents, injure
the trail."
The scent of the line leading to the hare's form lies longer than that
of a hare on the run, and for this reason: in proceeding to her form
the hare keeps stopping,[15] the other is in rapid motion;
consequently, the ground in one case is thickly saturated all along
with scent, in the other sparsely and superficially. So, too, scent
lies better in woody than on barren ground, since, whilst running to
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