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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: so the running[18] animal, for the simple reason that she is scared
out of her wits by the hounds.[19]
[17] "The form-frequenting hare."
[18] "Her roving congener," i.e. the hunted hare that squats. The
distinction drawn is between the form chosen by the hare for her
own comfort, and her squatting-place to escape the hounds when
hunted.
[19] i.e. "the dogs have turned her head and made her as mad as a
March hare."
In reclining the hare draws up the thighs under the flanks,[20]
putting its fore-legs together, as a rule, and stretching them out,
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