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ARRIAN 



Chap. V. 



Physical 



indications 



resumed. 



to the man's as if to kiss him, and jmnping up, will hang on 

 his neck, and not let him go until he has appeased his angry 

 threats.^" 



Now really I do not think that I should be ashamed to 

 write even the name of this dog ; that it may be left to pos- 

 terity, that Xenophon the Athenian had a greyhound called 

 Horme, of the greatest speed and inteUigence, ^^ and altogether 

 supremely excellent. ^* 



Let the ears of your greyhounds be large and soft, ^^ so as 

 to appear, from their size and softness, as if broken. Such 

 are best : but it is no bad indication if they appear erect, pro- 

 vided they are not small and stiff. ^^ The neck should be long, 



Buffon, H. N. 

 Le Chien. 



12. " Plus sensible au souvenir des bienfaits qu'a. celiii des outrages, il ne se 

 rebute pas par les mauvais traitemens, il les subit, les oublie, ou ne s'en souvient que 

 pour s'attacher davantage ; loin de s'irriter ou de fuir, il leche cette main, instrument 

 de douleur, qui vient de le frapper ; il ne lui oppose que la plainte, at la desarme 

 enfin par la patience et la soumission." 



13. 2o(/>ci)TctT7j. Plato also has kvuv ffo^ccTdTos. 



14. 'lepoTciTTj — "holiest;" Encycl. INIetropol., article "Hunting." It is scarcely 

 possible to express this epithet in English. Zeune's Index GrEecitatis gives " pras- 

 stantissima." I do not like Mr. Smedley's translation, E. M. ; and yet I cannot 

 suggest a better in its place than that of the version. A coursing friend substitutes 

 " perfectly divine." 



15. He now returns from his beautiful episode on Horra6 to the physical indica- 

 tions of excellence in greyhounds generally. The conque of the ear is semi-pen- 

 dulous, and yet the greyhound has the power of elevating it with as much ease as the 

 less reclaimed varieties of dog. This particular structure gives the appearance, no- 

 ticed in the text, of the ear being broken ; and also adds to its seeming magnitude. 



16. The modern courser prefers the small ears of the Oppianic hound. 



Oppian. Cyneg. 

 I. V. 403. 



CTfiap. XV. fol. 

 66. 



Nemesian. 

 Cyneget. 113. 



jSatcb S* SirepBtv 

 oSara \evra\4oi(Ti irepiffTiWotvd^ v/xivecrffi : 



and excludes the pricked ear, the " rectae aures " of Fracastor. Albertus recom- 

 mends " aures acutse retrorsum directae, et parvai :" the Mayster of Game, "the 

 eerys smal and hie in the maner of a serpent :" Gervase Markham, " a sharp ear, 

 short, and close-falling :" but the most correct notion of the ears of a perfect grey- 

 hound is imparted in the line 



Cuique nirais moUes fluitent in cursibus aures — 

 of the Carthaginian poet. 



