6S DOG. Class I. 



purpofcrs, as to attend to every part of the herd be 

 it ever fo large; confine them to the road, and 

 force in every flraggler without doing it the lead 

 injury. 



The next is thtVillaticus^ or Catenarius-, xhtmaf- 

 tiff or l^and dog', a fpecies of great fize and ftrength, 

 and a very loud barker. Manwood hys*^ it de- 

 rives its name from jnafe thefefe^ being fuppofed 

 to frighten away robbers by its tremendous voice. 

 Caius tells us that three of thefe were reckoned a 

 match for a bear ; and four for a lion : but from 

 an experiment made in the Tower by James the 

 firft, that noble quadruped was found an unequal 

 match to only three. Two of the dogs were dis- 

 abled in the combat, but the third forced the 

 lion to feek for fafety by flight f. The Englijh 

 bull dog feems to belong to this fpecies ; and pro- 

 bably is the dog our author mentions under the 

 title of Laniarius, Great-Britain was fo noted for 

 its maftiffs, that the Roman Emperors appointed 

 an officer in this ifland with the title of Procurator 

 Cynegii^^ whofe fole bufinefs was to breed, and 

 tranfmit from hence to the Amphitheatre^ fuch as 

 would prove equal to the combats of the place, 



Magnaque taurorum fradluri colla Britanni \\, 

 And Britijh dogs fubdue the flouted bulls. 



* Man^joood\ Foreji Lamj. 



•f- StorLv^s Annals y 1427. 



X Camd. Brit, in Hampjhire, 



(I Claudian de laude Stilichonis. Lib, iii, Lin, 301. 



Gratius 



