Wild Boar
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Cyropaedia (Greek)
Why did you learn to ensnare wild boars with nets and pitfalls, and deer with traps and toils?
in the texts
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
A game animal classified among the 'beasts of the forest' protected under royal Forest Law.
Here the wild boar and deer of various species found shelter, in which they were protected by the severe regulations of the “Forest Law.
The King established a claim to an exclusive right to hunt the more important species of animals ferae naturae, known as “beasts of the forest”—embracing the red deer (harts and hinds), the fallow deer (bucks and does), the roe deer of both sexes, and the wild boar, with, exceptionally in one forest, the ordinary hare.
Cyropaedia
Wild boars are named as animals hunted by snares, nets, and pitfalls.
Why did you learn to ensnare wild boars with nets and pitfalls, and deer with traps and toils?