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ARKIAN 



Chap. IV. 



External 

 Character 

 generally. 



for in every variety of dog, you will find, on reflection, no one 

 point so indicative of speed and good breeding as length ; and 

 on the other hand, no such mark of slowness and degeneracy 

 as shortness. So that I have even seen dogs with numerous 

 other faults, that have been, on account of their length, both 

 swift and high-couraged. And farther, the larger dogs, ^ 

 when in other respects equal, show higher breeding than small 

 ones on the very score of size. But those large dogs are bad, 

 whose limbs are unknit, and destitute of symmetry ; "* being 

 indeed, when so fotmed, worse than small dogs, with an equal 

 share of other faults attached to them. 



Your greyhounds should have light and well-articulated 

 heads ; ^ whether hooked ^ or flat nosed is not of much con- 



Sir Walter 

 Scott, 



Rhetoric. L, i. 

 c. V. 



Polluc. Onom. 

 L. V. c. X. .57. 



Xenoplion. de 

 Venal, c. iii. 



iMagster at 

 (ffiamp, c. XV. 



fol. 6(j. 



Vlitius, the learned editor of the Poetas Venatici, mentions that greyhounds were 

 called in his day, kot' e|oxV> " '^^ iong dogs," as by modern coursers. 



3. Kal ^))v Kol at fiei^ovis — eixpviarepai roov (rfiiKpuu. 



Our most distinguished modern greyhounds, as Millar, " facilis cui plurima 

 palma," Snowball, and others, have been large dogs, lengthy, muscular, and low on 

 the legs : 



Who knows not Snowball ? he whose race renown'd 

 Is still victorious on each coursing ground ? 

 SwatFham, Newmarket, and the Roman Camp, 

 Have seen them victors o'er each meaner stamp. 



If we qualify the size by the conditions laid down by Aristotle in the apfral aiiiixa- 

 Tos, we shall probably hit the mark as to ^eyidos, whose apir^ is defined rh inrepexeiv 

 KOTO. tJ) fxrjKOS, Kol ^ddos, Kol TrXdros, tuv ■koKKwv, rocrovrcf /jiei^ovt, SxTre nrj fipaSv- 

 Tfpas iroielv ras Kivrjaets Sia rijv vTrep^oKi\v . 



4. Pollux has well observed aperal 5e Kvfwv, anh fikv aifiaTos, fxeyaKat, /uijSe affvfi- 

 (lerpol, /U7j5e avdpixoo'Tui. 



The Vertragi, like Xenophon's Spartan Foxites, should not be high on the legs, 

 nor loose-made — at inpr)\al (J,ev koI ao-u^/xerpot, acrvvraKTa exovaai Tb, auijxara, ^apiws 

 SiatpoiTUKTiv — they labour in their course. 



" The good greyhounde," says Edmund de Langley, " sliuld be of middel asise, 

 neither to moche neither to lifel, and then is he good for alle beestis," &c. 



5. The head of the greyhound is a remarkable feature in his external character : 



Oppian.Cyneg. 

 1.401. 



&pKlOV 7j5e Kap7]vov, 



Kuv(pov, fvykrivov, Kva.va\ aTiXfionv onanrai' 

 Kapxapuf, (KTaStov Ti\i0ui crrSfJ-a. 



