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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: [38] {dianastaseis}, "the same methods of mutual recovery."
Wild pigs may be captured further in the following fashion: The nets
are fixed for them at the entrances of woody glens,[39] in coppices
and hollows, and on screes, where there are outlets into rank meadow-
lands, marshes, and clear pools.[40] The appointed person mounts guard
at the nets with his boar-spear, while the others work the dogs,
exploring the best and likeliest spots. As soon as the quarry is found
the chase commences. If then an animal falls into the net, the net-
keeper will grip his boar-spear and[41] advance, when he will ply it
as I have described; if he escape the net, then after him full cry. In
hot, sultry weather the boar may be run down by the hounds and
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