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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: set off--with his hounds and a supply of javelins--before daylight to
the place in question. Here he will attach the hounds to trees[7] some
distance off, for fear of their barking,[8] when they catch sight of
the deer. That done he will choose a specular point himself and keep a
sharp look-out.[9] As day breaks he will espy the hinds leading their
fawns to the places where they will lay them severally to rest.[10]
Having made them lie down and suckled them, they will cast anxious
glances this way and that to see that no one watches them; and then
they will severally withdraw to the side opposite and mount guard,
each over her own offspring. The huntsman, who has seen it all,[11]
will loose the dogs, and with javelins in hand himself advance towards
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