8)
flanks, a mean between large and small; the hips (or "couples") rounded,
fleshy behind, not tied together above, but firmly knitted on the
inside; (9) the lower or under part of the belly (10) slack, and the
belly itself the same, that is, hollow and sunken; tail long, straight,
and pointed; (11) thighs (i.e. hams) stout and compact; shanks (i.e.
lower thighs) long, round, and solid; hind-legs much longer than the
fore-legs, and relatively lean; feet round and cat-like. (12)

(1) Pollux, v. 7; Arrian, "Cyn." iv.

(2) {meteora}, prominent.?See Sturz, s.v.

(3) {tas diakriseis batheias}, lit. "with a deep frontal sinus."

(4) Reading {makra}, or if {mikra}, "small."

(5) Al. "well rounded."

(6) "Shoulder blades standing out a little from the shoulders"; i.e.
"free."

(7) i.e. "not wholly given up to depth, but well curved"; depth is not
everything unless the ribs be also curved. Schneid. cf. Ov. "Met."
iii. 216, "et substricta gerens Sicyonius ilia Ladon," where the
poet is perhaps describing a greyhound, "chyned like a bream." See
Stonehenge, pp. 21, 22. Xenophon's "Castorians" were more like the
Welsh harrier in build, I presume.

(8) Or, "neither soft and spongy nor unyielding." See Stoneh., p. 23.

(9) "Drawn up underneath it," lit. "tucked up."

(10) Al. "flank," "flanks themselves."

(11) Or, as we should say, "stern." See Pollux, v. 59; Arrian, v. 9.

(12) See Stonehenge, p. 24 foll.

Hounds possessed of these points will be strong in build, and at the
same time light and active; they will have symmetry at once and pace; a
bright, beaming expression; and good mouths.

In following up scent, (13) see how they show their mettle by rapidly
quitting beaten paths, keeping their heads sloping to the ground,
smiling, as it were to greet the trail; see how they let their ears
drop, how they keep moving their eyes to and fro quickly, flourishing
their sterns. (14) Forwards they should go with many a circle towards
the hare's form, (15) steadily guided by the line, all together. When
they are close to the hare itself, they will make the fact plain to the
huntsman by the quickened pace at which they run, as if they would let
him know by their fury, by the motion of head and eyes, by rapid changes
of gait and gesture, (16) now casting a glance back and now fixing their
gaze steadily forward to the creature's hiding-place, (17) by twistings
and turnings of the body, fling