Selecta capita ex scriptoribus Graecis in usum classis quintae Carolinae

For this reason, they take care of hunting publicly, and the king, just as in war, is their leader. He himself hunts, and takes care of the others so that they might hunt, because this exercise seems to be the truest of things related to war. For it accustoms one to rise early and to endure cold and heat. It also exercises one with marches and runs. It is also necessary to shoot an animal, and to throw, wherever it happens to appear, and the soul is also often forced to be sharpened in the hunt when one of the courageous animals stands against them. For one must strike that which comes to close quarters, and guard against that which is attacking, so that it is not easy to find in the hunt what is absent from things present in war.

They go out for the hunt having more breakfast, as is likely, than the boys, but otherwise it is the same. While hunting, they would not eat breakfast; but if it is necessary to stay longer because of a beast, or if they otherwise wish to spend time on the hunt, having eaten this breakfast, they hunt on the following day until dinner, and they count these two days as one, because they consume the food of one day. They do this for the sake of being accustomed, so that, if any need should arise in war, they are able to do this. And for a side-dish, those of this age have whatever they might hunt. If not, the cress. And if anyone thinks they eat unpleasantly when they have only cress with their bread, or drink unpleasantly when they drink water, let him remember how sweet it is to eat barley cake and bread when hungry, and how sweet it is to drink water when thirsty.