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plain, unless he happen to be advanced in age, ^° for it shows Chap. VII. 

 sluggishness. 



The most high-bred greyhounds have a prominent brow, From gait. 

 and look proud. ^^ Their tread is light, quick-stepping, on 

 their toes ; and they walk sideways, ^^ extending their necks 

 like horses curvetting. ^^ 



10. OuSe rh taraddai Se iv itiZitf \v8e7(Tav aya06y. Constant confinement with 

 cliiiin and collar, made the youthful Celtic hound start from couples with fire, when 

 taken into the field for sport or exercise ; not so, however, the aged, whose privi- 

 leged rest is beautifully touched by our classic poet of the chase, and readily yielded 

 by Arrian as no blemish to his character : 



Now growTi stiff with age, Somervilie. 



And many a painful chase, the wise old hound, ^' '■ 



Regardless of the frolic pack, attends 

 His master's side, &c. 



11. 'EirtffKuwof — suj)ercilii ruga, frontis ruga: very prominent in our highland 

 breed : 



irai' 5e t eiri(TKvviov Karu eA/cerat ocrffe KoKimrmv. Iliad, p , 130. 



12. "AKpov. So the Paris and Amsterdam editions, quasi eV &Kpuv hvvxf^v, 

 Schneider reads afiphv, a delicate tread, a light tread ; hut the signification is nearly 

 the same. Linnceus's definition corresponds with Arrian's as to the dog's gait : 



" oblique currit, incedit supra digitos," fieTaPaKkova-i tox iT\evpas, " tranversis Systenia 



incedunt lateribus." Naturce. Canis. 



13. Aafiirpweacnv. " De equo altius progrediente," Zeune. See Xen. de Re 

 Equestri, c. x. 



Kv^wwv opQolmv €7r' ovaaiv au^eV aiipet. AppoIIon, 



Rhod. 



Xenophon uses the term yavpiaadai, perhaps, with the same meaning. I take Kafi- 

 Trpvvo) (magnifice me ostento) to signify the artificial posture in which the horse is 

 placed by a skilful rider, with the aid of rein, whip, spur, &c. as described by Xeno- 

 phon in the chapter referred to. To this graceful attitude of the well-disciplined 

 war-horse, we may suppose our author to liken that of the Celtic hound in the 

 strictest propriety : 



Now I behold the steed curvet and bound, Gay's 



And paw with restless hoof the smoking ground. Rural Sports. 



