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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: cheer on the hounds, and the rest will follow in good order at some
considerable distance from one another, so as to leave the animal a
free passage; since if he falls into the thick of them as he makes
off, there is a fair chance of being wounded, for he will certainly
vent his fury on the first creature he falls foul of.
[22] Lit. "then they will take their javelins and boar-spears and
advance."
As soon as the hounds are near his lair, they will make their
onslaught. The boar, bewildered by the uproar, will rise up and toss
the first hound that ventures to attack him in front. He will then run
and fall into the toils; or if not, then after him full cry.[23] Even
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