and may be better understood of the sharpness of the appetite of evening wolves, when hunger bitten:and their horsemen shall spread themselves; or be multiplied, as the Targum; they shall be many, and spread themselves all over the country, so that there will be no escaping; all will fall into their hands:and their horsemen shall come from far; as Chaldea was reckoned from Judea, and especially in comparison of neighbouring nations, who used to be troublesome, as Moab, Edom, &c.
see Jer 5:15:they shall flee as the eagle [that] hasteth to eat; those horsemen shall be so speedy in their march, that they shall seem rather to fly than ride, and even to fly as swift as the eagle, the swiftest of birds, and which itself flies swiftest when hungry, and in sight of its prey; and the rather this bird is mentioned, because used by many nations, as the Persians, and others, for a military sign .
Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 16. De Vita Apollonii, l. 2. c. 7. Hierozoic. par. 1. l. 3. c. 7. col. 788. Pharsalia, l. 6. Comment. in Hos. v. 14. fol. 10. L. Hist. Animal. l. 8. c. 6. In Hexaemeron. De Rebus Portugall.
l. 9. apud Frantz. Hist. Animal. Sacr. par. 1. 8. p. 90. Damir apud Bochart, ut supra. (Hierozoic. par. 1. l. 3. c. 7. col. 788.) Nat. Hist. l. 10. c. 73. Bibliothec. l. 3. p. 177. Geograph. l. 16. p.
534. Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 22. wdxw "et acuti erunt", Montanus, Cocceius; "et acutiores", Pagninus, Calvin, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius, Grotius; so Ben Melech; "et acuti sunt", Burkius. De Animal.
l. 10. c. 26. Nat. Hist. l. 11. c. 37. Ut supra. (De Animal. l. 10. c. 26.) Iliad. 7. prope finem. Saturnal. l. 1. c. 17. "Vesper ubi e pastu vitulos ad tecta reducit, Auditisque lupos acuunt balatibus agni."
Virgil. Georgic. l. 4. "Ac veluti pleno lupus insidiatus ovili Nocte super media-----", Ibid. Aeneid. l. 8. Aelian. de Animal. l. 1. c. 36. Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 28. c. 20. Vid. Lydium de Re Militari, l.
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