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class of themselvos, under the title of pedibus celeres, of the greatest 

 speed of foot and least sagacity of nose of the whole genus, running 

 entirely on sight of their game. The Celtic or Gallic hound does 

 not appear to have been introduced generally into the more southern 

 parts of Europe, till after the dissolution of the commonwealth of 

 Rome. He is first mentioned by Ovid ; and his style of coursing 

 the hare so exquisitely described, that it must have been derived 

 from actual experience in the field rather than hearsay ; which latter 

 alone seems to have given him admission into the Cynegeticon of 

 Gratius, Ovid's contemporary. 



The earliest systematic account of the two first varieties of Vena- 

 tio, will be found in the Cynegeticus of the elder Xenoplion ; who 

 describes in the 6th chapter the style of hunting the hare in the 

 mountainous, woodland regions of Greece, with all its poaching- 

 gear : and in the 9th, 10th, and 11th chapters, the chase of deer, 

 boars, lions, pards, lynxes, panthers, and bears. The Greeks were 

 J. Vlitii Venat. entirely unacquainted with the third species of Venatio, named, for 

 distinction's sake, Venatio cursoria, as the others are V. hellica, 

 and V. indagatoria. 



The animals obnoxious to the chase were suitable to its diflferent 

 varieties, and coped with by classic hunters according to the prowess 

 of each game. Some creatures being timid and fugacious, others of 

 great strength and ferocity, and a third class wily and artful, — the 

 Plin. Paneg. hunters were wont, in the words of Pliny's panegyric, " certare cum 

 ^" ' fngacibus feris cursu, cum audacibus robore, cum callidis astu ;" — 

 thereby acquiring, in Diana's school of mimic war, the necessary 

 experimental knowledge for following the flying foe, or contending 

 with the daring, or the subtle, in the field of real battle. ^ 



1. Painter's Palace of Pleasure amusingly works out the points of resemblance in 



the field-array of an army and a hunt ; — " by the pursuite of Beastes, sleyghts of 



warre bee observed : The Houndes be the square battel!, the Greyhoundes be the 

 flanquarts and Wynges to follow the enimy, the horseman semeth to gieve the 

 Chase, when the Game speedetli to covert, the Homes be the Trumpets to sounde' 

 the Chase, and Retire, and for incouragement of the Dogges to run. To be short, it 

 seemeth a very Campe in battayle, ordayned for the pleasure and passetyme of noble 

 youth." 



