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more likely from our Chrysean group, hunted by 

 the scent. The Chaonian, no doubt, had also a 

 mixed orierin, or were a domesticated race of Cha- 



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ontes, or Chrysean wild dogs, allied to the Molos- 

 sian, which race was a broad-mouthed breed, and 

 therefore connected with the drover, or watch-dog, 

 but not with the bull-dog or mastiff; for that kind 

 was unknown, until the march of Alexander made 

 Greece acquainted with it. The Chaonian is most 

 likely still to be seen in the great watch-dogs of 

 Epirus, and even in the race of Asia Minor ; and, 

 as it is mentioned also among the Cretan, where 

 the Molossian were fabled to have been cast in brass 

 by Vulcan, and animated by Jupiter, we may con- 

 clude, that it was imported during the swarming of 

 the Cyclopian, and other nations, after they were 

 expelled Albanian Iberia and High Asia, and were 

 wandering, for some centuries, along the seas in 

 quest of plunder and new homes. Of this race 

 were also, no doubt, the Cretan Diaphonoi, who 

 fought by day and hunted by night. But the 

 Parippi seem to have been small, and carried on 

 horses, as was afterwards done, in the romantic era 

 of Western Europe, by knights and damsels with 

 their brachets.* 



Caelius and others advert, however, to a race of 

 blue, or slate-coloured Molossi (Glauci Molossi\ 

 not highly esteemed by the sportsmen of antiquity ; 

 which, nevertheless, we are inclined to consider as 



* Others, however, imagine that the Parippi were dogs, in 

 fleetness, equal to a horse's speed. 



