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APPENDIX. 



in one of Virgil's minor poems, amended by Heyne, refers very 

 pathetically to the companionship of the Hyrcanian dog" in the moun- 

 tainous chase — 



Titus 



Andronicus 



Act II. sc. II. 



Cirisvs.307. 



to climb the highest promontory top — 



though associates from a Cretan kennel would have been more in 

 place — 



Nunquam ego te summo volitantem in vertice mentis 

 Hyrcanos interque canes agmenque ferarum 

 Conspiciani, nee te redeuntem amplexa tenebo. 



De Venat. fjjg Locrian dog, much esteemed by Grecian sportsmen, is 



particularly employed by Xenophon in the boar-chase ; but I knovr 

 not to which of the territories called Locris he should be appropriated, 

 nor whether common to all. Nor do I find in him properties suffi- 

 ciently characteristic of the family of bellicosi to place him here 

 with confidence — and yet I no where see him used in pursuit of timid 

 fugacious quarry. 1 Oppian (no authority for classification) intro- 

 duces him between the Egyptian and Molossian — here then let him 

 Oppian. Cyneg. stand — jiovKoXiwi' ovpoi, AoKpol ^(^apoTroi re MoXotrffoi. The following 

 beautiful little epitaph of Anyta is admitted, merely because its 

 subject, the fleetest of musical hounds, bears the name of Locris — 



Anyta 



Epidauria.apuJ 



ScriptoresGree- 



cos fllinores. 



Oxford, 1829. 



ii\eo Syiirore Ka\ crb -KoXippi^ov irapa. dd/xvov, 

 AoKpl <pi\o(j)66yycDV uKvraTa aKvXaKoiv, 



Tolov iXacppi^opTi reaS eyKdrdero KiiXtf 

 iov aiiei\tKT0V ■iroiKi\6oiLpos eX'^* 



for I am by no means convinced that the title is any thing more 

 than an individual appellative (unconnected with locality) bestowed 



Numismata 



Siciliffi et 



Magnae Gra;cia2 



T. XXVI. 



T. XXXV. 



1. The hare on the reverse of Locrian numismata cannot be considered as proof of 

 the pursuit of such quarry being the popular diversion of the country, nor as militating 

 against the Locrian hound's introduction here ; — for the same impression occurs oa 

 other coins — on those of the Falisci, a colony of Argos, and others — having reference 

 to historical or mythological subjects, unconnected with the field sports of the 



country. 



