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of perusing the following lines of Darcius, in which he celebrates 

 these tiny creatures; — of whom Martial's Issa will be remembered 

 as a clussic exemplar—" Delici* catella Publi." 



Sunt huroiles etiain Molitaju ex gentc catelli, 

 Quod gremio gestare soleut Hero'ides, hique 

 Nee cursu celerem sectantur privpete cervum. 

 Nee lato pavidum leporem scrutantur in arvo : 

 Veste sedent flux^, et pedibus mylesia caleant 

 Serica, sub Tjrioque reeurabunt moUiter ostro : 

 None caput exertant gremio, saliuntque decorum 

 Nobilis in vullum doming, lusuque fatigant 

 Labra corallino modicum siiffusa rubore, 

 Vemantesque genas, et ebur superantia coila, 

 Smaragdoque graves digitus, et Perside gaza. 

 Nunc tenui latrare soiio, pictoque videbis 

 Lascivire toro, aut nitida juveniliter aula. 



But hold- 



Martial. 



L. i.Ep. no. 



.T. Darcil 



Venusini Canes. 



whilst thus we play the fool, ('liurchill's 



In bold contempt of every rule — ^ '"^ Ghost. 



_ . . " B. HI. 



Things of no consequence expressing, 

 Describing now, and now digressing — 

 To the discredit of our skill, 

 The main concern is standing still. 



It is a favourite notion of classic writers that the qualities and 

 dispositions of the animals of each country are in accordance with 

 those of the human inhabitants : and this opinion prevails more 

 especially relative to domesticated animals, the reclaimed varieties 

 of the dog and horse. Numerous instances might be adduced in 

 corroboration of this hypothesis. Strabo remarks in the Iberian 

 and Albanian people, and their dogs, the same fondness of hunting — 

 dripevTiKol be Kal avroi Ka\ o'l kvves uvtuv els virepfioXi'jv : and ^lian, ^iian. de Nat. 

 in the Medes and their horses — aopapoi bk Mfjboi Kai aftpol, Kal °™c. 2. 

 fievTOi Kal ol eKeiviav toiovtoi Imrof (pairjs av avroiis rpvcp^v avv Tois 

 beuTTorais, ical t^ fxeyedei tov awfiarosy Kai t^ KaWei, k. t. X. These, 



treasure of time, to wythdrawe theyr mindes from more commendable exercises, and Holinshed's 



to content theyr corrupt concupiscences wyth vaine disport, a silly poore shift to shun Description of 



theyr irkesome ydlenesse." „ "'•*'°^; 



■' ■' B. III. c. 13. 



