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Chap. V. ther, but as loose, and free from each other, as possible — legs 

 round, straight, and well-jointed — sides strong — loins broad, 

 firm, not fleshy, but sinewy — upper flanks loose and supple '^ — 

 hips wide asunder — lower flanks hollow — tails fine, long, rough 

 with hair, supple, flexible, and more haiiy towards the tip — 



A Icon. 



Onoraasticon. 

 L. V. c. X. 



Belisarius 

 de Venatione. 



Aristot. Phy- 

 siognom. c. vi. 



Fiacastorius's canine portrait, " Sint armi lati, sint jeque pectora lata," &c. are of 

 doubtful application. 



Pollux adds to the perfection of the fore-legs by saying they should be fj.^ irpoH- 

 Xovra KaTOL rovs ayKuuas — " not out at the elbows :" and Xenophon would have the 

 Spartan dog straight both in the leg and at the elbow. 



" Ilia sint angusta et compressa : venter exilis, nam crassus currentem gravat. 

 Crura alta, brachia non aeque, ne leporis capturam impediant. Anteriores pedes, ut 

 in fele, rotundi potius quam longi." 



19. The terms XaySpes and Keveuves are often confounded as synonymous. Arrian 

 and the elder Xenophon use the term Xaydvfs to designate (speaking anatomically) 

 that part of the lumbar region, behind the last or short ribs, where the kidneys are 

 situate, the upper and anterior part of the flanks : KeveCoves, the lower and posterior 

 part of the flanks. 



Aristotle observes that the best Canes Venatici are well tucked-up in the flanks, 

 iSoi S' &v Tjy Ka\ ruv kvvwv tovs (piKoBripordrovs (v^wvovs ovras. Such was the Ovi- 

 dian Ladon, 



Metara. L. in. 



Substricta gerens Sicyonius ilia Ladon. 



Ci&ap. XV. 

 fol. 66. 



The Mayster of Game is here peculiarly illustrative of the text, fashioning the 

 greyhound to perfection : " her shuldres as a roobuk. The for legges streght and 

 greet ynow and nought to hie legges, the feet straught and rounde as a catte and 

 greet clees,— the boone and the joyntes of the chyne greet and hard as the chyne of 

 an hart. Eke be reson his chynne shuld be a litel hie, for it is better than it were 

 flatt, &c. &c. — the thyes grete and squarred as an hare, the houghes streight and not 

 crompyng as of an oxe, a cattes tayle makyng a ryng at eende and not to hie, the to 

 boonys of the chyne behynd brode of a large pame or more. Also ther byne many 

 greihoundes with longe tailles ryght swift," &c. 



Book of Hawk- 

 yng,&c. 1486. 



Fotyd lyke a catte : 

 Tayllyd lyke a ratte : 

 Syded lyke a teme. 

 And chynyd lyke a beme- 



finishes the doggerel of the Sopcweli portrait. 



