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hide ruiint alii rapidfl velociiis aurS, 



I'amphagiis, et Dorceus, et Oribasus, Arcades omnes, 



A'ebrophouosque valens, et triix cum Laelape Tlieron, 



Et pedibus Pterelas, et naribus utilis Agre, 



H^la;usque fero nuper percussus ab apro, 



Deque lupo concepta Nape, pecudesque secuta 



Poemenis, et natis comitata Harpvia duobus, 



Et substricta gercns Sicyouius ilia Ladon ; 



Et Dromas, et Canace, Sticteque, et Tigris, et Alee, 



Et niveis Leucon, et villis Asbolus atris, 



Free valid usque Lacon, etcursu fortis Aello, 



Et Thous, et Cyprio velox cum fratre Lycisca. 



The poet elsewhere bestows on the hound of Arcadia the local epi- 

 thet of Maenalian, from Mount Msenalus — 



Maenalius lepori det sua terga canis. 



Is it not probable that some of the hounds of chase, bestowed by 

 the Arcadian God on the Goddess of hunting, were culled by his 

 goatish majesty from the kennels of the country of Lycaon, where 

 Pan himself gratified his sporting ardour ? — the brace of pie-balled 

 — the leash of long-eared — and the spotted hound ? 



t]v 5" o yiveifiTTis Suo fxiv Kvvas ^jxicrv -mffovs, 

 rpiis 5e TrJp' ovariovs, eva 5' ai6\ov' o'i pa. Xiovras 

 avTovs av fpvovTiS, 'Sre Spd^aiVTO Sepdaiv, 

 iiKKov iTi ^(iovTas eV av\iov. 



The other seven which Pan contributed to Dian's pack, being 

 dacriToves avpawv, and destined for more timid quarry, are placed 

 under the Spartan family, of which they were the fleetest members. 



Whether all the dogs " of Areas kinde," as sings Sir Arthur 

 Golding in his " worke very pleasant and delectable," were demi- 

 wolves, and " gaunt as any grewnd," I cannot take on myself to 

 decide ; but it is a fair inference, from the evidence adduced, that 

 lupi-canine crosses predominated, in all their ferocity, in the kennels 

 of Arcadia — not indeed to the exclusion of canine indigence of pure 

 blood, but enough to give a ferine character to the general type.* 



Ovid. MeSani. 

 L. 111.209. 



Artis Amator. 

 L.I. 



Callimacti. 

 H. in Dian, 



vs. 90. 



Golding's 



Ovid's Metaro. 



13. III. 



1. Blondus, in his ' Libellus de Canibus et Venatione,' remarks on the breed of 

 demi-wolves, as they are called by Shakespeare, that this cross was not had recourse 



