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But to tloscoiid from these general remarks on the supposed assi- 

 milation ot" men and animals, cohabitants of the same soil, to the 

 particular kennel-rolls of Greece and Rome. There appears to 

 have been a threefold distinction of Canes Venatici, acknowledged 

 by classic authors, during the imperial government of Rome. I do 

 not mean that this classification is accurately observed by all the 

 cynegetical and popular authorities ; but it may be traced, more or 

 less clearly, in the writings of Gratius, ^ Seneca, Arteraidorus, 

 Oppian, Claudian, and Julius Firmicus. 



The Faliscian notes a triple division in the fragment of his 

 Halieutic poem : 



canum quibus est audacia preeceps, Gratii Halieut. 



Venandique sagax virtus, viresque sequendi. 



98. 



" In cane sagacitas prima est," says Seneca in one of his Epistles, 

 " si investigare debet feras ; cursus, si consequi; audacia, si mordere 

 et invadere." 



We find nearly a similar arrangement in the Oneirocritica of 

 Artemidorus, a strange visionary of Ephesus, who spent his whole 

 life in endeavouring to solve the mysteries, hidden, as he conceived, 



in dreams — rwv kvvwv oi /uev eirl df]pav Tpe(j>ovTai, Kat tovtwv ot fxeu Artemidori 



, , x.c>f/ ~ a ' ~ 'S^•^J^-~ Oneirocrit. 



€i(Tiv t^vevrat, ot oe ofxoae tois orjpiois ■j^^iopovaiv' ot ce ent cpvKaKT) twv l ii c xi 



KTrifJLarwv, ovs olKovpovs Kai Seff/xtous Xeyo/icr, k. t. X. 



Claudian, in his third book De Laudibus Stiliconis, describing 



the active co-operation of Diana and her nymphs in advancing the 



honour of his hero, " Consulis in plausum," distinctly specifies a 



triple division : 



variae formis, et gente sequuntur, Claudian. de 



Ingenioque canes : ilia; gravioribus aptw Laud, btilic. 



Morsibus ; hae pedibiis celeres ; hae nare sagaces ; 



Cynegeticon, seems equally tenable. At the same time, it is not impossible but that 

 both passages may refer to greyhounds, under the names of Galli and Celta;. 



1. In the muster-roll of Actaeon's pack by Gratius's contemporary, amidst various 

 sorts of hounds culled from various countries, the same characteristic distinctions pre- 

 dominate : we have a 



trux cum Laelape Thcron, Ovid. Met. 



Et pedibus Pterclas, et naribus utilis Agre. * "'' * 



