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turgid. The lower parts ſmall, and firm.The fore feet very ſupple, narrow, and upright. The hind feet firm, and broad, neither of them liable to injury by treading on any thing however hard; the hinder legs are much larger than the fore legs, and incline a little outwards. The hair ſhort and light.
It is impoſſible, therefore, being ſo conſtructed, but that ſhe muſt be ſtrong, agile, and very light. As a proof that ſhe is very light, when ſhe goes along without being frightened ſhe always leaps, (for a hare walking no one ever ſaw, or ever will ſee,) throwing the hinder feet beyond the fore feet and ſhe runs in that manner [1].
- ↑ Here follow the words δῆλον δὲ τουτο ἐν χροῖ, which have puzzled all the commentators, who have moſt of them left them unexplained. Leunclave, however, propoſes δῆλον δὲ τουτο ἐν χρεία, which he boldly inſerts in the texts, and ſays, "Senfum autem eſt quantum lepus ultra pedes priores in curſu poſteriores collocet in neceſſitate conſpici, quum ea premitur," But this ſenſe, as he calls it, is abſolutely nonſenfe, for Xenophon expreſſly ſays ſhe goes in this manner when ſhe is not frightened, ὃταν ἀτρέμα διαπορεύηται, and ſurely the faſter ſhe goes the leſs opportunity there is of obſerving her manner of going. I would propoſe a reading
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