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New Chapters in Greek History. [Chap. III.
ing lions. On two others we find a scene of hunting. A
river full of fish runs down the blade. Lotuses grow in
it, and wild ducks are feeding among them. Two cats,
probably tame, and trained for the purpose, leap among
the ducks and seize them with mouth and paw. This is a
subject which is found in wall paintings of the eighteenth
dynasty in the British Museum * from Thebes in Egypt:
the river, the fish, the lotus, the cat, the ducks all recur.
On another sword we have a very vigorous representation
of a lion hunt. There arc three lions, all in varying
attitudes ; one flies, another also runs, but looks back ; the
third turns on the pursuers, and drags down one of them :
the others in various attitudes, armed with the spear and
sikge of city.
the bow, and sheltered behind huge shields, hasten to
the rescue of their fallen comrade (p. 65).
A still more recent and perhaps not less interesting
* Page 54, No. 70, General Guide
New Chapters in Greek History. [Chap. III.
ing lions. On two others we find a scene of hunting. A
river full of fish runs down the blade. Lotuses grow in
it, and wild ducks are feeding among them. Two cats,
probably tame, and trained for the purpose, leap among
the ducks and seize them with mouth and paw. This is a
subject which is found in wall paintings of the eighteenth
dynasty in the British Museum * from Thebes in Egypt:
the river, the fish, the lotus, the cat, the ducks all recur.
On another sword we have a very vigorous representation
of a lion hunt. There arc three lions, all in varying
attitudes ; one flies, another also runs, but looks back ; the
third turns on the pursuers, and drags down one of them :
the others in various attitudes, armed with the spear and
sikge of city.
the bow, and sheltered behind huge shields, hasten to
the rescue of their fallen comrade (p. 65).
A still more recent and perhaps not less interesting
* Page 54, No. 70, General Guide