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1、TheSportsmanTheSportsmanbyXenophonTranslationbyH.G.Dakyns1TheSportsmanXenophontheAthenianwasborn431B.C.HewasapupilofSocrates.HemarchedwiththeSpartans,andwasexiledfromAthens.SpartagavehimlandandpropertyinScillus,wherehelivedformanyyearsbeforehavingtomov
2、eoncemore,tosettleinCorinth.Hediedin354B.C.TheSportsmanisamanualonhuntinghares,deerandwildboar,includingthetopicsofdogs,andthebenefitsofhuntingfortheyoung.2TheSportsmanITothegodsthemselvesisduethediscovery,toApolloandArtemis,patronsofthechaseandprotect
3、orsofthehound.[1]AsaguerdontheybestowedituponCheiron,[2]byreasonofhisuprightness,andhetookitandwasglad,andturnedthegifttogoodaccount.Athisfeetsatmanyadisciple,towhomhetaughtthemysteryofhuntingandofchivalry[3]--towit,Cephalus,Asclepius,Melanion,Nestor,A
4、mphiaraus,Peleus,Telamon,Meleager,TheseusandHippolytus,Palamedes,Odysseus,Menestheus,Diomed,CastorandPolydeuces,MachaonandPodaleirius,Antilochus,AeneasandAchilles:ofwhomeachinhisturnwashonouredbythegods.Andletnonemarvelthatofthesethegreaterpart,albeitw
5、ell-pleasingtothegods,neverthelessweresubjecttodeath--whichisthewayofnature,[4]buttheirfamehasgrown--noryetthattheirprimeofmanhoodsofardiffered.ThelifetimeofCheironsufficedforallhisscholars;thefactbeingthatZeusandCheironwerebrethren,sonsofthesamefather
6、butofdifferentmothers--ZeusofRhea,andCheironofthenymphNais;[5]andsoitisthat,thougholderthanallofthem,hediednotbeforehehadtaughttheyoungest--towit,theboyAchilles.[6][1]Or,"Thisthingistheinventionofnomortalman,butofApolloandArtemis,towhombelonghuntingand
7、dogs."ForthestyleofexordiumL.Dind.cf(Ps.)Dion."Art.rhet."adin.;Galen,"Isagog."adin.;Alex.Aphrodis."Probl."2proem.[2]Thewisestand"justestofallthecentaurs,"Hom."Il."xi.831.SeeKingsley,"TheHeroes,"p.84.[3]Or,"thedisciplineofthehuntingfieldandothernoblelor
8、e."[4]Lit."sincethatisnature,butthepraiseofthemgrewgreatly."[5]Accordingtoothers,Philyra.Pind."Pyth."iii.1,{ethelonKheironakePhiluridan};cf."Pyth."vi.22;"Nem."iii.43.[6]SeePaus.iii.18.12.Thankstothecarefulheedtheypaidtodogsandthingspert
