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Inquit ; ' in audaces non est audacia tuta. 

 ' Parce meo, juvenis, temerarius esse perfclo . 

 ' Neve feras, quibus arma dedit natura, lacesse ; 

 ' Stet milii ne magno tua gloria. Noa movet fetas, 

 ' Nee facies, nee quee Venerem movere, leones 

 ' Setigerosque sues, oculosque animosque ferarum. 

 ' Fulraen habent acres in aduncis dentibus apri ; 

 ' Impetus est fulvis et vasta leonibus ira.' 



No wonder that the Celtic people by degrees discontinued the 

 warlike chase, fraught with innumerable perils, and substituted the 

 harmless pursuit of fugacious quarry, with keen-scented and swift- 

 footed hounds, according to the injunctions of the meretricious queen 

 to her disobedient " sweete boy :" 



Sir A. Golding Pursuing game of hurtlesse sort, as hares made lowe before, 



Ovid's Melam. Qj. gtagges with lofty heades, or buckes ;— 



which, in the days of Arrian, constituted their principal field sport. 



* Julius Pollux, in his Ononiasticon, mentions the Celtic war-dogs, 



and Oppian also includes KeXroJ in the muster-roll of his first cyne- 



getic.i It is probable that they were a-kin to those of ancient 



Britain ; for we are told by Strabo, who lived soon after Gratius, 



Strabo L. IV. that the exports from this island to Gaul consisted of §ep/uarn, Kal 



P* • avbpaTToba, Kal Kvves eu^uets Trpos rets Kvvr^yeTtas. KeXrot be Kal vpoi 



Tovs TToXefjiovs ^pwJTa/, Kal tovtois, Ka\ to'is e7rt)(wptots. AVhence it 



appears that the Celts had native Canes Venatici which they 



employed in war," as well as those imported from Britain. ^ In this 



1. Belin de Ballu appears to consider the Oppianic KeXroi Segusian hounds of 

 scent, and not war-dogs. See his Animadversiones in Oppian. L. i. vs. 373. Did the 

 poet inchide under the term KeXrol all the various sorts of hounds supposed indi- 

 genous of Celtica — the war-dogs, the Vertragi, Segusii, and hybrids of Pliny? No 

 country of antiquity affords such numerous varieties of the canine species as Gaul ; 

 and as the inhabitants are by the Greeks called Ke\To!, by the Romans Galli, and 

 sometimes synonymously with the latter, Celta; ; so may Oppian, an eastern Greek, 

 include under the term KeXroi the various subdivisions of the canine tribe, througliout 

 the whole territory of Gaul, however distinguished by earlier writers, either as indi- 

 genous of peculiar localities, or characterized by dissimilar qualities. 



2. The high antiquity of the Canes Venatici of Gaul, espoused by Jaqucs du 



