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All, therefore, are consigned to the same fate, and merged in 

 one common namelessness ; spite of the example of Ilippamon 

 of old, in the metrical commemoration of his sporting estabhsh- 

 ment : 



'AvSpl /xiV 'iTTTrct^coi/ ovofi ^f, 'liriTai Se n6Sapyos, Apud Pollucis 



. . , . , Onomasticoii. 



Kol Kvvi Aijdapyos, km depairovTi BaPfjs. 



With regard to the Appendix, 



Si quis lamen hasc quoque, si quis 

 Captus amore Jeget, 



I have only a few remarks to make. To many, though mere 

 sciolists in natural history, it must have appeared, during their 

 progress in classical reading, that much ignorance of the 

 varieties of the canine race is shown by annotators. With the 

 gentlemen ^ societate Jesu, and others who have favoured us 

 with their expositions of the ancients, there is too great an 

 inclination to generalize both as to the names and properties 

 of the canine tribe. The " veloces Spartse catuli" ^ are all 

 " levriers," though there was not, according to Arrian, (and 

 he is supported by Blumenbach,) a greyhound in the whole 

 of ancient Greece : and certainly as '' the babbling echo 



1. These terms are also misapplied in the Cynegeticon of the poet of Barga, and in 

 the Album Diana; Leporicidae ofSavarj of Caen. The latter, speaking of Spain and 

 Italy, says — 



Non alit in leporem catulos nisi forte Lacones Ljb, j. p, 5, 



Hcsperia, &c. 



and of the Italians and their chase he writes, 



Et lepori indicunt solo Laceda^nione belium. ' Lib. i. p. 6. 



