(4) Or, "defective specimens (that is to say, the majority) are to be noted, as follows." (5) {grupai}. (6) {kharopoi}. Al. Arrian, iv. 4, 5. (7) Or, "will probably retire from the chase and throw up the business through mere diminutiveness." (8) Or, "a hook-nosed (? pig-jawed, see Stonehenge, "The Dog," p. 19, 4th ed.) dog has a bad mouth and cannot hold." (9) Or, "a short-sighted, wall-eyed dog has defective vision." (10) Or, "they are weedy, ugly brutes as a rule." (11) Or, "stiffness of limbs means he will come off." Cf. "Mem." III. xiii. 6. (12) Lit. "a weak, thinly-haired animal is incapable of severe toil." (13) Or, "Nor will courage compensate for unsound feet. The toil and moil will be too great to endure, and owing to the pains in his feet he will in the end give in." Similarly many different modes of hunting a line of scent are to be seen in the same species of hound. (14) One dog as soon as he has found the trail will go along without sign or symptom to show that he is on the scent; another will vibrate his ears only and keep his tail (15) perfectly still; while a third has just the opposite propensity: he will keep his ears still and wag with the tip of his tail. Others draw their ears together, and assuming a solemn air, (16) drop their tails, tuck them between their legs, and scour along the line. Many do nothing of the sort. (17) They tear madly about, babbling round the line when they light upon it, and senselessly trampling out the scent. Others again will make wide circuits and excursions; either forecasting the line, (18) they overshoot it and leave the hare itself behind, or every time they run against the line they fall to conjecture, and when they catch sight of the quarry are all in a tremor, (19) and will not advance a step till they see the creature begin to stir. (14) Or, "Also the same dogs will exhibit many styles of coursing: one set as soon as they have got the trail pursue it without a sign, so there is no means of finding out that the animal is on the track." (15) "Stern." (16) Or "with their noses solemnly fixed on the ground and sterns lowered." (17) Or, "have quite a different action"; "exhibit quite another manner." (18) i.e. "they cast forwards to make short cuts," of skirters too lazy to run the line honestly. (19) Reading {tremousi}, "fall a-trembling"; al. {atremousi}, stand "stock-still"; i.e. are "dwellers."