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APPENDIX. 



his principle of omnifarious commixture, are recommended to be 

 crossed with sagacious Cretans — 



Oppian.Cjneg. 

 L, I. 395. 



H. Fracastorii 

 Alcun. 



eirtfi'KTy^o riaiotri KprJTas. 



The Veronese poet makes a twofold distinction of the dogs of 

 Pannonia in his cynegetical effusion, entitled A Icon, In the 

 first class, he places the Pannonii truces, as already cited, adapted 

 for the chase of fierce prey ; in the second, Pannonii agiles, for 

 timid, innoxious quarry : 



Si vero parvos lepores, capreasque fugaces 

 Malueris, timidosque sequi per devia cervos, 

 Delige Pannonios agiles, volucresque Sicambros. 



iEIian. Var. 



Hist. L. XIV. 



c. 46. 



The Pannonii truces are noticed by Julius Pollux, and also 

 their consimilars of Magnesia — both evidently of the .Epirote 

 breed. The former are also mentioned by Nemesian, Cyneg. v. 126, 



iElian characterizes the Magnesiau war-hounds as (pojSepoi re, kuI 

 aypioi, Kal €t'TV)(€lv cifxeiXiKToi ; and states that the horsemen of 

 Magnesia, 1 in the Ephesian war, were each accompanied to the field 

 with a Canis Venaticus, the dogs collectively first assaulting the 

 enemy, backed by the pedestrian soldiers, and lastly by the cavalry; 

 who did not charge till the canine warriors TrpoTrrjbun'Tes eraparroy t})v 

 Trape/jfioXi'iv. The MayvrjTes are merely named by the poet of Ana- 

 zarbus, in his first Cynegetic, vs. 37'2. 



Of all the pugnacious dogs of the classic file, the most renowned 

 were those bred on the continent of Epirus, and denominated, from 



De Nat. Anim. 

 L. vit, 



C. XXXVII. 



Plin. L. vni. 

 c. 40. 



J. Darcii 



Venusiiii 



Canes. 



1. Oi Maidi'Spy irapoiKuvvres MayvriTes. The same are mentioned by iElian, in his 

 work de Natura Animalium, in conjunction with the Hyrcanians, as being attended 

 to battle by canine auxiliaries — Kal -^v Kal tovto av^jxaxi-iibv ayaObv avrols Kol eirt- 

 KovpiK6v. And Pliny, speaking of the Coloplionii and Castabalenses, says they had 

 " cohortes canum — fidissima auxilia, nee stipendiorum indigna." 



His Colophoniacae (si vera est fama) phalanges 

 Auxiliis, hostem valido fregere duello : 

 Infaustoque olim cecidissent Caspia marte 

 Agmina, ni tali defensa coborte fuissent. 



