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 1 1| Lacedaemonian, would reply that hunting is third in order.~Athenian.
 2 6|         pleasure and advantage, hunting with dogs and other kinds
 3 7|     education and learning. But hunting and similar pursuits in
 4 7|         of witness to my words. Hunting is of wide extent, and has
 5 7|        included, for there is a hunting of creatures in the water,
 6 7|        there is a great deal of hunting of land animals of all kinds,
 7 7|        of wild beasts only. The hunting after man is also worthy
 8 7|     consideration; there is the hunting after him in war, and there
 9 7|       war, and there is often a hunting after him in the way of
10 7|      there is thieving, and the hunting which is practised by robbers,
11 7|       in laying down laws about hunting, can neither abstain from
12 7|        have to praise and blame hunting with a view to the exercise
13 7|  moderate praise and censure of hunting; the praise being assigned
14 7|        may no desire or love of hunting in the sea, or of angling
15 7|       for our athletes only the hunting and catching of land animals,
16 7|    which the one sort is called hunting by night, in which the hunters
17 7|     Thus, only the best kind of hunting is allowed at all—that of