Footnote 685: Paus. i. 27. 9. sqq. The arms and accoutrements of these primitive sportsmen corresponded with the rough service in which they were engaged. Sometimes, to the attack of the wild bull or the boar, they went forth with formidable battle-axes.[686] But when their game was fleet and innocuous a handful of light javelins and the bow sufficed, as when Odysseus and his companions beat the country in search of wild goats.[687] In the Æneid, too, we find the hero doing great execution among a herd of deer with his bow. Boar-spears also were in use ere the period of the Trojan war, as Odysseus, who appears to have been excessively addicted to the chase, is represented going thus armed to the field with the sons of Autolycos when he was wounded by the hog.[688] With the same weapon we find Adrastos engaged in the same sport, killing the son of Crœsos.[689] The chase of the lion, which in Xenophon’s time could no longer be enjoyed in Greece Proper, required the most daring courage and the most formidable weapons, spears, javelins, clubs, and burning torches, with which at last they repelled him at night from the cattle stalls. Homer, as usual, represents the contest to the life:[690] “He turned to go, as slow retreats the lion from the stalls, Whom men and dogs assault while round a shower of javelins falls. They all night watch about their herds, lest he intent on prey Should bear the flower of all their fields, the fattest bull away. Onward impetuously he bounds—the hissing javelins fly From daring hands, while torches send their blaze far up the sky. He dreads, though fierce, the dazzling flames thick flashing on his sight, And hungry still and breathing rage, retires with morning’s light.” Footnote 686: Iliad, ρ. 520. seq. Feith. Antiq. Hom. iv. c. 2. § 2. Footnote 687: Odyss. ι. 155. seq. Footnote 688: Odyss. ι. 465. seq. Footnote 689: Herod. i. 43. Footnote 690: Il. ρ. 657. Cf. Aristot. Hist. Anim. ix. 31. Oppian Cyneget. iv. 131. sqq.