222 APPENDIX. 



The introduction of a third, more recent portrait, will be justified 

 by the chaste Latinity of Peter Angelio, and the faithful accuracy of 

 his pen : 



P, Angelii Hie tibi ingentes tauros aggressus, et ursos 



°l •' °' Sistat, et imposito fugientes vulnere tardet : 



Cui sumtiJEe pendent aures, cui laxa superne 

 Labra fluant, cui vultus atrox, cui maxima cervix, 

 Obtusumque caput, pressumque ante omnia rostrum : 

 Praiterea magnique pedes, unguesque recurvi : 

 Molle solum, sublime femen, suppressior alvus : 

 Ipsaque rectorum longa internodia crurum : 

 Spina duplex, pingues lumbi, color helvus,' honestuni 

 Pectus : et e patulis efflet qui naribus ignem, 

 Latratu quoties s^lvas implevit, et amplo 

 Pectore conceptas subitus decurrit ad iras. 

 Turn vero splendent oculi, collumque tumescit, 

 Et caudam crebro villosa in terga retorquet. 



The quarry of these savage hounds consisted of animals more fero- 

 cious than their assailants — such as 



Gratii Halieut. Trahit in prseceps non sana feiocia mentis, 



vs. 73. 



Following the order of the poetical manual, to which we are 

 indebted for our first-cited outline of the race, the Mede and Celt 

 arrest our earliest attention, followed by the Ser, Lycaonian, Hyrca- 

 nian, Briton, Molossian, and others: 



Gratii Cyneg. magna indocilis dat praslia Medus, 



^^* ^^^' Magnaque diversos excollit gloria Celtas.* 



The Persian appears to have been a connecting link between the 

 pugnacious and sagacious classes, though his neighbours of Media 



De Quad. Dio^. !• Aldrovandus explains color helvus as " medius inter rufum et album " — fawn. 

 Vivip. L. III. 2. Tbe epithet " diversos" may indicate remoteness of birth-place as explained 



by Johnson ; or difference of character as hinted by Wase — Gallia being far distant 

 from Media, and the Celtic dog being sagacious as well as pugnacious, and therefore 

 tliffering from the " indocilis Medus," whose character was that of mere truculency, 

 unredeemed by the least sagacity. 



