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APPENDIX, 



Brodaei 



Ann<itationes 



in Oppian. 



Jones's 

 Oppian's 

 Halieutics. 



Oppian. 



Halieu't. 



L. HI. C23. 



European Iberia, or Spain. Indeed, the geographical appropriation 

 of Oppian's Iberian dogs is doubtful in the opinion of commenta- 

 tors. Brodaeus assigns the Iberian horse of Oppian (Cyn. i. vs. 284.) 

 to Asia ; but the people mentioned by the poet under the same 

 name, in connexion with the Celts, in the episode at the conclusion 

 of his second Halieutic, are evidently inhabitants of Western Europe. 

 And again — his description of the tunnies " rushing from th' Atlan- 

 tic deep," into the Mediterranean, and of their subsequent capture 

 along its shores, places the Iberians a second time in the West : 



TovcrS' ^Tot Ttp&Tov fiev 'lp7}p'iSo5 evSodiv a\iJi.r)s 

 avipes aypwcTcrovcTt filrj KOfi6covTes''lfiripes. 

 SevTfpa Se 'Po5avo7o napa (rrofxa 6r]priT^pis 

 KeXrol, k. t. \. 



hovrever, w^hether Asiatic or European, it is sufficient for our classi- 

 fication that the dogs vpere of the pugnacious class. 



The modern representative of the classical Albanese occupies a 

 more extensive district than his ferocious prototype, vfIio vpas con- 

 fined to the region between Colchos and Armenia ; whereas his 

 descendant is found in Macedonia, Illyria, Chaonia, and Epirus. 



Of the classical Albanian, in his character of a dog of war, Vale- 

 rius Flaccus has left us the following very animated description : 



Valerii Flacci 

 Argonaut. 

 L. VI. 107. 



Insequitur Dranga;a phalanx, claustrisque profusi 

 Caspiadae ; queis turba canuni non segnius acres 

 Exilit ad lituos, piignasque capessit lieriles : 

 Inde etiam par mortis honos ; turnulisque recepti 

 Inter avos, positusque virum : nam pectora ferro 

 Terribilesque innexa jubas ruit agmine nigro 

 Latratuque cohors : quanto sonat horrida Ditis 

 Janua, ve! superas Hecates coiiiitatus ad auras. 



P. Angelii 



Bargjei Cyneg. 



L. V. 



And the fame of his tribe, as spread over these countries at large, is 

 celebrated by the chaste poet of Barga in his 5th Cynegeticon, with 

 the same song, decies repetita, of leonine and elephantine quarry : 



Quid ! tibi si, quarum concursu exhorruit Argo, 

 Cceruleis sparsas adeam Sjmplegadas undis, 

 Cappadocumque eras, et inhospita Colcliidos arva, 

 Alque iter ad duros contendam pergere Iberos : 

 Caspiaque Albanis quondam regnata tyrannis 



