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but, as some of the Cretans are named ^kxttovoi^ from working Chap. III. 

 hard, iTajU,aj'' from tlieir keenness, and mongrels from their being 

 compounded of both ; so these Celts are named from their 

 swiftness. In figure, the most high-bred are a prodigy of Their Beauty, 

 beauty ; ^'^ — their eyes, their hair, their colour, and bodily 

 shape throughout. Such brilliancy of gloss is there about the 

 spottiness of the parti-coloured, and in those of uniform colour 

 such glistening over the sameness of tint, as to afford a most 

 delightful spectacle to an amateur of coursing. 



I will specify the indications of speed and good breeding in Chap. IV. * 

 greyhounds, ^ and by attention to what points ill-bred and and^goodBW. 

 slow ones may be distinguished from them. 



In the first place, let them be lengthy from head to tail ; " Derived from 



Shape. 



8. Aidwovoi, So named, according to Pollux, because they not only kept up the Ononiast. L. v. 

 contest through the day, but slept near their antagonists, and went to work again in ^' '* '* 



the morning. " Perdita nee seree meminit decedere nocti." Varius. Apud Macrob. 



9. The iTafial are probably the Trdpiinrot of Pollux. SaturnaJ. 



10. TV Se (Seac, Ka.\6v ti xPW* f'""'' ^'^' How characteristic of the avr^p Orjpeuri- 

 Khs of the text is this burst of admiration of the Vertragus, the fleetest and most 



beautiful of hounds ! " Of all dogs whatsoever the most noble and princely, strong, The Countrey 

 nimble, swift, and valient." Farme. c. xxii. 



* Blane omits this and ten succeeding chapters. 



1. Ae'|co 5e Kol avrhs, &c. " I too," says Arrian, " will relate the indications," 

 &c. ; for Xenopbon had also written on the external character of dogs, and it was 

 Arrian's iutention not to recapitulate what his predecessor had already discussed, but 

 to fill up the lacunas of his treatise. The variety of hound, however, described by 

 the elder Xenophon being different, and the indications of excellence equally so, it 

 was necessary for the younger Athenian also to enter on the subject of external 

 character. 



2. MuKpal effTwaav airh Kf(pa\ris eV oiipdu. So Xenophon of the Spartans, XPV De Venatione, 

 elj/oi /jLcydkas, &c. Length of body is insisted on by the ancients as an essential <;• '^'' 

 characteristic of 7ei/i'ai(jT7js in the horse, cow, and dog. Giatius notes the " longum 070 

 latus" of the latter, emd Oppian his fiTjiceSai/hv Kpanphv Sfixas, as necessary to per- Oppian. Cyneg. 

 fection of form. Such a structure is generally indicative of speed : and as an example '* 



the writer may specify a high-bred greyliound in his own possession, 5 feet 2 inches 

 long: 



Ocyor cervis, et agente ninibos Horat. h. i. 



Ocyor Euro. Od. xvi. 



