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APPENDIX. 



Pollucis 

 Ononiast. L. 



In Ibin. 



Plutarch, de 



Solert. Animal. 



&c. 



Pollucis 

 Onomast. L. v. 



blades, probably a Canis Ostiarius and not a Canis Venaticus, was 

 impaired by the loss of his tail, or the act of decurtation conferred 

 on the eccentric Athenian the notoriety he expected — nor on what 

 variety of the race is to be charged the deaths of Thrasus, Actaeon,i 

 and Linus, of Ovid's well-known tetrastic. It is foreign to my 

 purpose to inquire whether Plutarch's dog, who threw stones into 

 an oil-cruse till he had raised its contents sufficiently high in the 

 neck of the vessel to lap the oleaginous fluid, surpassed in sagacious 

 ingenuity the cunning brutes of more modern dog-fanciers — whether 

 the disciplined mimic, exhibited before Vespasian in the theatre of 

 Marcellus, must yield to the discriminative feats of his congener 

 before Justinian. All these non-descripts, from the janitor Orci to 

 the theatrical pantomimi, are out of my beat. Amusing too as it 

 might be to the reader to have an acccount of every faithful dog, 

 recorded by the immortal German naturalist as the av/ijua^^ot and 

 c(ofxaTO(j)v\aK€s of man, — and the anecdotes of canine instinct and 

 affection registered by Plutarch, ^lian, Pliny, Solinus, and Julius 

 Pollux — versified by Johannes Tzetzes and Natalis Comes, and 

 reprinted by the laborious PauUini in the Cynographia Curiosa, 

 presented to his notice, — such a compilation would lead me into too 

 wide a field. For the same reason, and without meaning any dis- 

 respect to the ladies of Greece and Rome, I am prevented from 

 enrolling on my file their domestic pets — 



Lucret. L. iv. 

 995. 



consueta domi catulorum blanda propago 

 Degere — 



the ol eirl rfpTTwXjyj/, Knl o'l fxeXiru'iot Xeyo/uevot of the visionary 

 Artemidorus. ^ I cannot, however, deny the reader the gratification 



1. With the aid of the poet I shall hereafter venture an opinion on the breed of 

 some of the pack of the stag-like huntsman — the most celebrated of the trio — slain by 

 command of Dian : eVeJ ^ixade ocpdeicra virh tov 'AKratcovos, <po$r]6e7iTa n^ 6 veaviaKos 

 f^ayopevffrj rh alcrxos avrrjs, iira(prJKfv avTw roiis Kvvas. See J, Sarisber. Policrat. 

 L. I. c. IV. for the moral of this tale. 



2. The iieXiToia KwiSia were so called, " quia ad fceminarura delicias ex Rlelito 

 Emend, p. 242. insula advehebantur :" — the " smalle ladyes popees that here awaye the flees" of 



Alban's. * Juliana Berners — " Instruments of folly to play and dally withal, in trifling away the 



Lucian. Deor. 



Dial. Juno et 



Latona. 



Minshasi 



