Xenophon, On Hunting, chapter 5, section 34

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When hunting on cultivated land avoid growing crops and let pools and streams alone. It is unseemly and wrong to interfere with them, and there is a risk of encouraging those who see to set themselves against the law.¹ On days on which there is no hunting,² all hunting tackle should be removed.

1 Both text and meaning are doubtful here. By “the law” is probably meant the law (or custom?) that allowed hunters to hunt over growing crops. See 12.5.

2 i.e., during festivals.

Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 7. E. C. Marchant, G. W. Bowersock, tr. Constitution of the Athenians. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1925.

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