Editing Arrian (section)

=== ''Kynēgetikos'' ===
''Cynegeticus'' (Κυνηγετικός),<ref>Roos, A.G. ''Flavii Arriani. Quae Exstant Omnia'', vol. II, Scripta Minora et Fragmenta. Leipzig: Teubner 1928</ref> translated as ''A treatise on hunting with hounds'', ''On Hunting'', or ''On Coursing'',<ref>Phillips, A. A., and M. M. Willcock, (eds.). Xenophon & Arrian on Hunting with Hounds. Oxford: Aris & Phillips, 1999. {{ISBN|0856687065}}. p. 1</ref><ref name="M.C. Howatson" /> is a work about the Celtic sport of coursing hare with sighthounds, specifically the Celtic greyhounds: in Greek (plural) ''ouertragoi'', in Latin (plural) ''vertragi''.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=-15dAAAAcAAJ&dq=Xenophon+the+Younger&pg=PA61 p. 51 – Arrian on Coursing. The Cynegeticus of the Younger Xenophon ... with Classical and Practical Annotations, and a Brief Sketch of the Life and Writings of the Author; To which is Added an Appendix Containing Some Account of the Canes Venatici of Classical Antiquity], Bohn, 1831 [Retrieved 2015-3-31] (ed. this was the first source for < Cynegeticus >)</ref><ref name="AB Bosworth">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bVWcAQAAQBAJ&q=Bithyniaca+Arrian&pg=PA169|author=AB Bosworth|title=The Oxford Classical Dictionary – edited by S Hornblower, A Spawforth, E Eidinow|publisher=Oxford University Press| isbn =978-0199545568 | access-date=2 April 2015|date=2012}}</ref><ref>Delabere Pritchett Blaine, [https://books.google.com/books?id=3Tw9AAAAYAAJ&dq=Cynegeticus+Arrian&pg=PA391 p. 391 – An Encyclopaedia of Rural Sports: Or a Complete Account, Historical, Practical, and Descriptive, of Hunting, Shooting, Fishing, Racing, and Other Field Sports and Athletic Amusements of the Present Day, Volume 1] Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1840 [Retrieved 31 March 2015]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=-ryY5tMwAAoC&dq=Arrian+canes+venatici&pg=PA486 The Quarterly Review, Volume 118] John Murray, 1865 [Retrieved 31 March 2015]</ref><ref>Thomas Keith, [https://books.google.com/books?id=iD1fAAAAcAAJ&dq=canes+venatici+Arian&pg=PA30 A new treatise on the use of the globes ... The sixth edition, corrected and improved] 1824 [Retrieved 31 March 2015]</ref><ref>AA Phillips, MM Willcock, [https://books.google.com/books?id=0NlfAAAAMAAJ&q=Arrian+Xenophon+on+hunting Xenophon and Arrian, On Hunting (Kynēgetikos)] Aris & Phillips, 1999 {{ISBN|0856687057}} [Retrieved 2015-04-04] (ed. source of word < Kynēgetikos ></ref><ref>[[Moses Finley|M. I. Finley]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=9FPqFcCJQlQC&dq=Arrian+Xenophon+on+hunting&pg=PA193 Studies in Ancient Society (Routledge Revivals) (p. 193)] Routledge, 2013 {{ISBN|1136505644}} [Retrieved 2015-04-04] (ed. source for < κυνηγεττικός >)</ref>

The work was inspired by and designed as an addition to [[Cynegeticus|an earlier exposition]] made by Xenophon, whom Arrian recognised to be the Ancient Greek authority on the subject of hunting with scent hounds.<ref>J. Mossman, F. Titchener, [https://books.google.com/books?id=C2-QJwc5FboC&dq=Arrian+hunting+as+preparation+for+war&pg=PA277 Virtues for the People: Aspects of Plutarchan Ethics (p. 277)] (edited by G Roskam, L. Van der Stockt) Universitaire Pers Leuven, 2011 {{ISBN|905867858X}} [Retrieved 4 April 2015] (ed. this source being not the first source for this fact for ed.)</ref><ref>Oxford Dictionary: [https://web.archive.org/web/20121110040600/http://oxforddictionaries.com/translate/french-english/exposition exposition], Oxford University Press [Retrieved 4 April 2015]</ref>