232 APPENDIX. 



from the latter connexion was that of Arcadia, the Lycaonian ; 

 thence called, peradventure, hycas by Simonides, and Lycisca by 

 Scaliger. Virgil and Ovid — " Mista lupo canis est signata voce Lycisca." ^ 

 That the Lycas of the canine epitaph was of lupine origin, we may 

 conjecture from the name ; but the Cean poet specifying other loca- 

 lities as the scenes of his hound's exploits in life, and Pollux calling 

 her AvKaba Tr)y QeTra\r)v, some other kennel may put forward a 

 claim, instead of that of Arcadia, for the honour of the breed ; or 

 the name may be merely an appellative distinction, unconnected 

 with lineage ; — still the monumental elegy is deserving of citation : 



Simonides t] aev koI (pBiufvas, \evK offrea toiS' ivi Tu/i/3y 



einendatus, ex lorKU erirpoueeiv drjpa^, &ypot(T<ra AvKis. 



Polluc. Ononi. ^ , / '* ,,„,,, 



L_ ^^ ^j^ Tav 5' (xpeTav ow(v fjLeya Xlri\tov, ar api5r]\os 



''Ocraa KiOatpwvSs olopSfioi (TKOTriai, 



Gratius contrasts the docility of Lycaonian dogs, the Teyej/roi of 

 Oppian, with the intractability of the Indian, 



Cyneg. vs. 160. j\^t contra faciles magnique Lycaones armis. 



The breed of the northern part of Peloponnesus, having been of 

 Ovid.Metam. great note, and the son of Pelasgus (" notus feritate Lycaon ") 

 having been converted into a wolf — the first subject, it may be, of 

 lycanthropy — the dogs indifferently called Arcadian and Lycaonian, 

 Vide Pausan. were probably, says C. Wase, " heirs of his own body naturally 

 begotten." Many Arcadian hounds are found in the Ovidian pack, 

 among the mistaken pursuers of the unfortunate son of Aristaeus — 



Euripidis {%v wfioffiroi (jKvXaKfs, &s idpi-^wro, 



SLecrndffavTO Kpelffcrov' iu Kvvrjytais,) 



possessed of great speed and resolution : 



1. In tlie rare tract of Jean de Glamorgan, I find a practical remark to tlie point : 

 La Chasse " Noterez que j'ay veu quelquefois que les levriers font difficulte de prendre una 

 du Loup. Joupe cliaude, ains la veulent saillir et covrir comme une cliienne : mais s'il y a aux 

 cours quelque bonne levriere, rile la prendra par envie et jalousie." 



