Excerpt from The Cynegeticus: Dissertation Submitted to the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Conformity With the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of PhilosophySeymour 2 for instance regards, with a few minor omissions, as the work of Xenophon I 18 - II 8, VI 7 - 16, VI 23-vii 4, VII 6 and 7, VII 9 - IX 7, IX 11, 12, 17, 18, X 1 - 3, 19 - 23, XII 1 - 17. He thus gets rid of certain touches of naturalistic humour, over interpretation of observation or quaint traditions of hunters' lore, and their formulary concomitants of curious syntax, all of which he regards as late, but which may be equally well supported as survivals of antiquity or anticipations of later idiom. One must remember that the sphere of the book, the sphere of venery, has ever been a curious mixture of low relief and high rhetoric, of antiquated terms and neological colloquialism.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.