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prima ilia canum, non ulla per artes 

 Cura prior, sive itulomitos vclicmcntior liostcs 

 Nudo niarte premas, seu belluin ex arte niinistres. 

 Mille canum patria;, ductique ab origine mores 

 Cuique suil. 



Gratii Cynpf;. 

 vs. 151. 



Where the descriptions of these mores or qualities are sufficiently 

 full, in the works alluded to, for a satisfactory classification of the 

 several varieties of the canine tribe, it is the object of the following 

 trivial work to attempt it — 



the various gifts to trace, 

 The minds and genius of the latrant race. 



Tickell's 

 Rliscellanies. 



But it must not be expected that it will give an account of all the 

 serai-fabulous dogs of classical antiquity, or attempt to reduce 

 within the pale of a zoological arrangement the shape and properties 

 of every mongrel, however memorable, that has puzzled the dis- 

 criminative acumen of Conrad Gesner himself; or find archetypes 

 in the kennels of Greece and Rome, for " all the barkand parish- 

 tikes" of the credulous Dr. Caius, and more recent writers of canine 

 biography. 



This little monograph being almost exclusively confined to the 

 common Canes Venatici — 



Ben Jonson's 

 Sad Shepherd. 

 Act II. sc. 3. 



TOffaoi t' inl iraai Kvveaffiv Oppian. Cyneg. 



e|ox' api^7i\oi nd\a t aypevrripcri fifhovrai — '" 



it is not incumbent on me to inquire whether a Cerberus, or an 



Orthrus, (the i:paT€p6(f)pova reKva of Typhaon and Echidna i), ever Hesiod. Tbeog. 



existed in canine shape — whether Anubis was a biped or quadruped 



" iatrator" — a genuine barker, or a dog-faced Mercury — "Epjiris u virgil. iEn. 



KvyonpoawTTos — whether Euripides was torn to pieces by ferocious L. viii.768. 



"^ '^ r J Lucian. Jupiter 



dogs or spiteful women — whether the beauty of the dog of Alci- Tragoedus. 



7] 8' inroKV(r(xafj.eu7i, reKero KpaTfp6cppGua reKVa, 

 ''OpBpov /jlIv TTpunov Kvva ytivaTo rrjpvovfi'i' 

 htimpov aiiTis iTtKTfv a/j.'fixavov , ovri (parethv, 

 K4p$epov cifxr)(rrr}v, aiSew Kitva xaXKefJc^oivof, 

 ■KiVTTfKovra Kaprivov, dcotSe'a Tf , Kparepdv n . 



2 c 



Hesiod. Theog. 

 vs. 308. 



