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learned writer of the Venatio Novantiqua, himself an experienced 

 and ardent sportsman ; but he has not corroborated the earlier 

 classification of others with the more recent evidence of the poet of 

 Anazarbus — indeed, he seems to view the Oppianic hound (Cyn. i. 

 401.) a,s sagaci-celer, and the Vertragus as unknown both to Pollux 

 and Oppian. 



The Cilician gives a decided preference to those canine tribes 

 which are specifically pure in their breed — cjtvXa novo^vKa — and enu- 

 merates, without any attempt at classification, all the tribes known 

 to him, under their geographical appellations : - 



Oppian. Cyneg. 

 L. I. 3{i7. 



Tlaiovis, kva6vioi, Kapes, Qp^'iKes, ''Wrjpes, 

 'ApKuSes, 'Apyeioi, AaKeSaifiSyioi, TeyeiJTai, 

 'Savpofxd.Tat, KeAroi, Kprires, 'M.dyvriTes, 'EireioJ, 

 iierffoi t' Aiyvirroio iroXvipafj-adotiTiv eV oxGuiS 

 ^ovKoKiwv oipoi, AoKpol, x^po'^oi T€ MoAofferof. 



But if the kennel-master acted on the principles laid down by this 

 poet, and his Latin predecessor, Gratius, and crossed his pack with 

 irreconcilable varieties out of different families, belonging to difi'erent 

 countries, (and that he did so we have evidence in the irregular and 

 ill-disciplined muster-roll of Ovid,) although the names on Oppian's 

 file might remain, the animals must have been so changed by the 

 " superinduction of opposite qualities," that a genuine breed of any 

 one variety must have been most rare. To this general amalgama- 

 tion of heterogeneous forms and qualities in the canine race, must be 

 attributed the custom of applying the terms Molossian and Spartan 



Venatio 

 Novantiqua, 



Luclan. 



adversus 

 Indoctum. 



it is true, speaks of the vulpi-canine cross as an established one, " quasi protritum 

 aliquid," says Vlitius, " quod ego rumore tantiim," continues the latter, " et vix 

 ita conipertum habeo," — but of this, more anon. 



2. Of these the most important are hereafter mentioned under the same or dif- 

 ferent names: The Tlalovis, are Pannonians — the AiiarSvtoi probably identical with the 

 Tuscan — and those of the town of Tegea, (where Lucian tells us, the inhabitants exhi- 

 bited the hide of tiie Calydonian boar — SelKvvffiv Teyearai tov Ka\vSa>viov rh Sf'pyuot,) 

 must of course be considered Arcadian sub-varieties. The rest are of the Molossian 

 character. Instead oCEireiol Bodin and Belin de Ballu read 'Afiopyo); but of the 

 hounds of Amorgos, one of the Cyclades, I know nothing. 



