PREFACE. 



In these authors alone do we find any allusion to the courser's 



hound, till towards the close of the third century, when he 



Nemesidii. Cy- again appears in the Cynegeticon of Nemesian ; who has 



neg. vs. lOG. ^ ^^ "^ ^ 



cleverly struck out in a few lines the elegant symmetry of his 

 shape, and added thereto some peculiar remarks on the selec- 

 tion, feeding, and entrance of puppies. With the scanty por- 

 traiture of the Carthaginian poet we are brought down to the 

 l':jusd. vs. 64. reigns of Carus, his sons, *^ Divi fortissima pignora Cari," and 

 Diocletian : at which epoch, memorable alike in the annals of 

 the world and its literature, the classical history of the leash 

 may be said to terminate, and therewith all notice of the Celtic 

 hound. ^ 



We have no ancient records of the chase- to succeed the 



1. In the 27th oration of Themistius, the eclectic philosopher of Paphlagonia, a 

 passage occurs, which, as far as merely mentioning Celtic dogs by name, may be said 

 to prolong the notice to the fourth century. The whole passage, as illustrative of 

 the author's subject, " non loca attendenda sed homines," is curious and worthy of 



Themibtii Orat. citation — '6<ttis 5e ayana Kvvas, tovtco TrpocrdxAes fxlv Krrifia, Kcd KeXrai, koI AaKaivai 

 ''^^'"" aKvXuKfS' SdKvei 5e avrhv Ka\ rh KaffTopiSuv <f)i\ov, Kol rh 'ApKaSiKhv avrh, Kal rh KpTj- 



TiKhv, cus <pv(TLS Tuv 6r]pl<i>v eA.e^x^"' "^^^ iiivas Karh rijv oSbv eiriffTrofievaiS' ov irapdyf/e- 

 rat Be ou5e ras olnoi (rKv\aKev6ii<Tas, et firjTe KaWovs iKeivwv iJ.y}Ti wkvttjtos \tl- 

 ■KOLi'To. In favour of the greyhound being here cited, it may be remarked that the 

 Bithynian courser calls the Celtic dog fieya KTrifia (cap. xxxii.) and his shape Ka\6u 

 Ti XPWS ^"d derives his name airh rrjs wKvrriTos, as the characteristic distinction of 

 the race. See some remarks on the " Canes Scolici " of Symniachus hereafter. 



2. The Cynosophiura alone, a Greek work " de Cur& Canura," breaks the silence of 

 many centuries. It is supposed to have been compiled, about the year 1270, by 

 Demetrius of Constantinople, author of the first treatise " de Re Accipitraria," and 

 physician to the Emperor Michael PalcEologas. To what is borrowed from the two 

 Xenophons, nothing is added of novelty or interest, save in the department of canine 

 pathology; indeed it is almost entirely confined to kennel-management and thera- 

 peutics. No notice is taken of any variety of dog by name. The reader, who may 

 wish to consult its medical nostrums, will find the treatise attached to the " Rei Acci- 

 pitraria; Scriptores" of Rigaltius (Lutctia; jidcxii.) and to the " Poeta: \'enatici " 

 of Johnson (Londini MDcxcix.). 



