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many tones of speech i"^ — more than I ever knew in any other 

 dog — pointing out, in his own language, whatever he wants. 



Having been beaten, when a puppy, with a whip, if any 

 one, even at this day, does but mention a whip, he vnll come 

 up to the speaker cowering and begging, " applying his mouth 



Chap. V. 



craivaia, {alel yhp re (pepu fiei\'tyfj.ara dvf^ov). 



Homer. Odyss. 

 X. 216. 



Hence probably Juvenal's " sordes farris mordere canini." 

 10. Tlo\v<p6oYyos. 



Hanc tu si queritur, loqui putabis. 

 Sentit tristitiamque gaudiunique. 



Martial. Issa 

 Publii. 



Did Honne's " verba canina" (Ovid, in Ibin) extend to the imitation of spoken lan- 

 guage, as in the memorable case of M. Leibnitz's dog, recorded by him (" temoin ocu- 

 laire") in the Hist, de I'Acad. Royale des Sciences, ann. 1715 ? or are we to under- 

 stand that this most musical of hounds, <pi\o<l)66yy(iiv (Lkutcittj (TKvXaKuv, only " gave Anyta 

 tongue," like bis congeners, with various intonations of bark ? Epidauria. 



o|eip vXaKTj x^^Vioi Kvves i(p9eyyoino — 

 making up by intelligence, and significancy of action, for deficiency of speech 



Apollon. Rhod. 

 L. III. 1216. 



eiVl Koi eV <TKv\6.Kiff(xiv ix^'Ppof^^t oTcri Kpoviccv 

 avSpofiitiv (ppifa SwKe koI oh fipoririv irSpe (pwvijv. 



Nonni Diony- 

 siac. L. XVI. 



Nunc blande assiliebat hue et illuc 

 Ludens, atque avido appetebat ore. 

 Erectis modo cruribus, bipesque 

 Mense adstabat herili, heroque ab ipso 

 Latratu tenero cibum petebat. 



Andreas Nau- 

 gerius, Carm, v. 

 Illustr. Poetar. 



11. 'TTiroTTT'^laa'o Xiirapei — 



The fawning hound 

 Salutes thee cow'ring. 



The Chace. 

 B.I. 



Plorantes fugiunt summisso corpore plagas. 



Lucretius. 

 L. V. 1071. 



