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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: makes his charge. The string round the top of the net must be attached
to some stout tree, and not to any mere shrub or thorn-bush, since
these light-bending branches will give way to strain on open
ground.[19] All about each net it will be well to stop with timber
even places[20] "where harbrough nis to see," so that the hulking
brute may drive a straight course[21] into the toils without tacking.
[15] Lit. "accordingly recover the dog, and tie her up also with the
rest," etc.
[16] {ormous}. Lit. "moorings," i.e. "favourite haunts." Cf. {dusorma}
below. Al. "stelle die Fallnetze auf die Wechsel," Lenz.
[17] {anteridas}. See a note in the "Class. Rev." X. i. p. 7, by G. S.
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