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probably, he meant to contrast, as well as their proud riders, with 



the sorry-looking, unsightly horses of Libya, (active, however, and 



patient of fatigue), and the unsightly people of the country. 



The naturalist then proceeds to say that such also are his opinions 



with regard to the dogs of each country ; and specifies, as examples 



corroborative of his hypothesis, the Cretan, Molossian, and Car- 



yElian. de Nat. nianian — kvcjv Kpj/c^" /coi/0^, kui uXtiki), kuI opetflaaiais trvi/Tpcxpos' 



Animal. L. iii. , v . > i' / f - q - \ "i t 



c. 2. ''f* fxivToi Kai avToi Kpr/res toiovtovs avrovs iTapaoeiicvvai, icai <^dei >/ 



(pflfir). dufxiKwraros be KvriLv Mo\oct(tos, errei (^vfiwhetTTUTOi Kai ol avvpes. 



'Avfjp be Kap/myios kui kvihv aiJ(j)6T€pa aypiuiTaTa Kai fietXi^Orjvai 



ciTeyKTa (pvertv. A farther example of this prevalent notion is found 



in the lines of Gratius on the crafty Acarnanian dog — " clandestinus 



Acarnan :" — 



Gratii Cyneg. 

 vs. 184. 



Sicut Acarnanes subierunt praelia furto ; 



Sic canis ilia suos taciturna supervenit hostes 



Thucyd. B. P. 

 L. III. 107. 



alluding to a passage of the history of Thucydides, where he relates 

 that Demosthenes placed 400 Acarnanians in ambuscade, in a 

 hollow way near Olpae ; whence they issued forth in the heat of the 

 subsequent engagement, and by their sudden assault on the rear of 

 the Peloponnesians, completely routed them. A similar reference 

 to national character is evident in the passage of Gratius, on cross- 

 ing defective breeds of dogs with others in which opposite excel- 

 lencies exist : 



Gratii C^fiieg. 

 vs. 194, 



Quondam inconsullis mater dabit Unibrica Gallis 

 Sensum agilem, ' &c. 



Antiq. Sept. 



etCelt.Keysler. 



s. II. c. II. G. 



Lucan. L. i. 



p. 19. 

 Ed. Farnab. 



1. A passage which Wase supposes to allude to the canis Gallicus of Arrian ; 

 whose impetuosity of course, and entire want of scent, his peculiar characteristics, 

 resemble the heedless, rash, and head-strong ardour of the Gallic character in gene- 

 ral, (yElian. V. H. L. xii. c. 23.) and particularly of the Gallic soldiers of Lucan's 

 Pharsalia : 



quos ille tiraorum 

 Maximus haud urget lethi metus ; inde ruendi 

 la ferrum mens prona viris, animffique capaces 

 Mortis : et ignavum reditur«e parcere vita;. 



But an allusion to the war-dogs of Ccltica, the " divcrsi Cella; " of vs. 15G. of the 



