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by the blood, ^ xaQansp Tali ymat^l ; and you must here pay her Chap. XXVTT. 

 particular attention, as it is only for a short interval of time 



Cavian with Ihe Thracian, tlie Tuscan with the Spartan, and the Sarmatian with the 

 Iberian, he concludes with a preference of pure blood : 



uiSe f^ev ev Kepdtreias' arap ttoAv <p4prara iro-vruiv 

 (pv\a fXfveL ixov6cpv\a, rd t e|oxa TiKHi^'puvTO 

 &vSpes iiraKTripes. 



gens una tamen felicior unS. Natalis Comes 



Nascitur ex specie. de Venat. 



L. I. 



Beliiide Ballu in his " Animadversiones" has evidently mistaken Oppian's meaning 

 in the latter part of this citation. The poet alludes to an union of the qualities of 

 individuals of the same variety of dog ; and not, as supposed by the French critic, to 

 breeding in and in, or proximity of blood, in the same family — a practice as degene- 

 rative in the canine race, if persevered in for a length of time, as the Stagirite has 

 observed it to be in the human species. See Aristot. de Rlietoricu L. ii. c. 17. 

 Brodasus very properly explains iJ.ov6(pv\a by iSiScpvAa in his annotations. And 

 Conrad Gesner, with his usual accuracy, says : " Prajstantissimi quidenicanes in suo Hist. Quad, 

 quique genere ixovScpvXoi sunt, id est, ex unius generis pare^tibus prognati : veriim ^* '• P* '^'''' 

 superflua venatorum cura miscere etiam diversa genera, qua; quidem innumera sunt, 

 adinvenit." 



Ipsa tamen generi sua cuique est maxima virtus. P. Angelii 



Et quamvis variis proles genitoribus orta rSargiei Lyneg. 



Testeturque aninios, et magnum robur avorum ; 



Inque uno interdum geminetur pectore duplex 



Utililas ; tamen ilia alieno proiiiius usu 



Degenerat, semperque magis producit inertem 



Progeniem, et patria longe a virtute remotani. 



1. Ta Se Karafjirjuia Tats Kvalv e-trTo. rip-fpats yiuirat' crvfifiaiva Si afxa Kol fTrapcns Aristotelis 



Hist. Animal. 

 L. VI. "20. 



uiSotou* if Be tS xpo^'V tovti^ uii irpuaUfrai oxeiaf, aAA' eV rais i^era Tainas kuTo. 

 riixepais' Tas yap iracras SoKe7 (TKv^au 7]fi4pas Thrapas koI SeKa iis inl rh iruXv. 



Dat Venus accessus, et blando focdere jungit. Gratii Cyneg. 



vs. JG3. 

 The son of Gryllus recommends (c. vii.) the same watchful delay to insure fruitful 



intercourse : S7€»' 5e Karairavofievas, iVa Buttov iyKvixoves yiyvuVTat, irphs kvvus 

 d^aOous. The term Karavavofuvas here signifies " when their heat is begiuning to 

 remit a little," and not, as rendered by Blane, " in a quiet manner." 



