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ARRIAN 



Chap. IV. are black eyes, provided they are wide-open and grim-looking ; 

 and last of all, grey : ^ nor are these to be considered bad, nor 

 indicative of bad dogs, provided they are clear, and have a 

 savage look. 



Chap. V. For I havc myself bred up a homid whose eyes are the 



Episode on greyest of the grey ; ^ a swift, hard-working, courageous, 



Arrian's dog i-i- • i ■ n 



Horme. sound-iootcd dog, and, m his prune, a match, at any tune, for 

 four hares. He " is, moreover, (for while I am writing, he is 



Cyneg. iii. 

 V. 90. 



ilHagster of 

 ©ante, c. xv. 



fol. CG. 



of the lynx, 



fi\€^dpoKTtv air' 6f6a\fiui' anapvyal 

 IfxepSiV ffTpdwrovcri, 



9. Xenophon de Venat. c. in. condemns blink-eyed and grey-eyed hounds as bad 

 and unsightly, otVxpai SpaaBai : but Oppian particularly specifies blue eyes as pre- 

 ferable to all others ; and I have known many azure-eyed dogs of great merit. The 

 darker the eye, however, the better. " Her eynne shuld be," according to De 

 Langiey, " reed or blak as of a spbauke :" — " full and clear, with long eye-lids," 

 according to Markham. The reader of Anacreon will understand the sort of eye 

 admired in the greyhound, from the 



Anacreon. Od. 



XXIX. 



ix4\av ofi/xa yop'yhv earw 



of the 29th Ode; and at the same time, perhaps, smile at the quotation. 



1. The early part of tiiis chapter, devoted to the portraiture of the author's beloved 

 Horme, interrupts his general description of the greyhound's shape, which he again 

 resumes after gratifying his personal feelings in an affectionate interlude of canine 

 biography ; ostensibly introduced to prove that a blue-eyed hound (Kvva x^-po""^^) 

 o'Lav -xo-poiKDrarriv) may possess all the essential excellencies of his race. 



2. 1 liave taken the liberty of changing the sex of this favourite dog, according to 

 the example of Holsten ; because I think it probable that Arrian may have used the 

 feminine gender here, and generally through the treatise, not from the animal spoken 



Stephani Sche- of liaving been really of that sex, but from its being usual with Xenophun and other 



classic authors to employ the feminine gender when speaking of the dogs of the chase. 



Eustath. Indeed, it has been remarked by Eustathius and others, that such was the custom of 



ad II. H, p. 092. |j,g ancient Greek writers, whenever they spoke of any kind of animals collectively. 

 But Arrian does not apply the feminine gender to dogs gregatitn only, but also indivi- 

 dually : and the same prevalence of this gender is also observable in the Latin poets. 



