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(iiatius has ologantly sketched th(; hcasts of Vcncry in his Ila- 

 lioiitic frasiiK'iit : ' 



Ca^tera qua3 densas habitant aiiimalia sylvas, 

 Aut vani quatiunt semper lymphata timores, 

 Aut traliit in praiceps non sana ferocia mentis. 

 Ipsa sequi natura monet, vel coimnus iro, 

 Impiger ipse leo venantum sternere pergit 

 Agmiiia, et adversis infert sua pectora telis : 

 Quoque venit, fidens magis, et sublatior ardel, 

 Coticussitque toros, et viribus addidit iram, 

 Prodigus atque suo properat sibi robore letbum. 

 Foedus Lucanis provolvitur ursus ab antris. 



Quid nisi pondus iners, stolida;que ferocia mentis ? 



Actus aper setis iram denunciat hirtis, 



Et ruit oppositi nitens in vulnera ferri, 



Pressus, et eniisso nioritur per viscera telo. 



Altera pars fidens pedibus, dat terga sequenti, 



Ut pavidi lepores, et fulvo tergore damse, 



Et capto fugiens cervus sine fine tiniore. 



Oppian's distribution of them into classes is nearly similar : 



drjpajv ol fiev eacnv firi<ppoves, aio\6fiov\oi, 

 aWa defxas /3awi" toI 5' f/xiraMv aKKrjfvres, 

 /SouAtji/ 5' if (TTTideffaii' avdhKiSis' ol 5' &p^ Sfiaprrj 

 Kal KpaS'iTiv SeiKo), Koi yv7u ireKova' afievr]Vol, 

 aWa ■K65tiT(Ti 0001' Tolaiv 5e Qihs irdpe TtavTO,, 

 jSouAV /cepSaAerjv, Kparephv fievos, wKea yovva, 

 •yiyvdffKovcri 3' eKaffros krjs (pvcrtos kMito, SSipa, 

 evO' 6\LjoBpai>ees re Kal tvQa ireKovcri Sacpoivoi. k. t. A. 



And in Claudian we recognise a summary classification of the same 

 distinctive characters, adapted to the threefold varieties of the dog 

 already noticed in his poem : 



capitur decus omne timorque 

 Silvarum. Non cauta latent : non mole resistunt 

 Fortia : non volucri fugiunt pernicia cursu. 



Gratii Ilalicut. 

 vs. 71. 



Oppian. Cyneg. 

 L. IV, 25. 



Claudian. de 



Laud. Stilic. 



L. III. 



1. This fragment, highly Gratian in its style and subject, but long mis-appropriated 

 to Ovid on the erroneous authority of Pliny, (L. xxxii. c. 2.) is now considered, on 

 the strength of internal evidence, by Vlitius and Wernsdorf to belong to Gratius. 



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