92 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 



which, putting to sea, means were found to destroy 

 them. 



The ancient Chaones, Lychaones, and, perhaps, 

 the Sacae,* seem to have taken their name from 

 dogs ; and probahly they hore these animals, or their 

 skins, for banners. The Menapii had a dog in their 

 shields ; and the Tertio Decimanni (according to the 

 provincial canon from Constantine to Theodosius), 

 had the same emblem, painted yellow upon a white 

 ground. In the Notitia Imperii, no less than ten 

 legions bore the effigies of dogs upon their shields. 



Among the Ptoembarii of Ethiopia, a living dog 

 was kept and worshipped as an inspired king,t 

 whose voice and actions were interpreted by priests ! 

 The root Can, Khan, in its acceptation of power, is 

 evidently mixed up with the idea of a dog. "We 

 find the Psalmist typifying, by the name of dogs, 

 hostile kings around him ; and the prophets making 

 use of the term head, or chief dog. The word 

 Keleb, only marks that it is a foreign image trans- 

 lated into the language of the Hebrews. /Many 

 nations in central Asia, and tribes that emigrated 

 from thence, employed the large ferocious dogs 

 they had with them for the purposes of war./ Some- 

 times forming their advancad, or first line, with 



* Sacae, Saha, Sahia, of India ; Sak, ancient Persic, a dog ; 

 Gsach, Teutonic, power ; Chach, a king. The Median 2rx, 

 a dog, is only a mutation of Sak. 



T Pliny, Solinus, Plutarch, &c. Even in Britain, Cu, a 

 dog or a head, was thus dignified, as in Cunobelin : the head 

 king, the solar king, dog of the sun, the pendragon. 



