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muto legit arva Molosso Achill. L. ii. 



Venator, videat donee sub frondihus liostem. 



On the trail of his game I believe him to have been a mute limier or 

 limehoinul, (whence Savary's term echemylhus,) and never to have Venationis 

 opened untu the quarry had started trom its lair — being even at that Leges. L. i. 

 time less noisy in his bark than the purely sagacious breeds. His 

 silence or closeness is clearly indicated by Gratius, where he orders 

 the yelping Etolian dam to be crossed with a Molossian sire, 



vanas tantum Cal_ydonia linguee Cyrieg. vs. 196. 



Exibit vitium patre emendata Molosso. 



Will not the praises of Lydia, of Martial's well-known epitaph, 

 place her among the savage inmates of a Molossian kennel ? 



Epigr. 70. 



Amphitheatrales inter nutrita magistros Martial. 



Venatrix sylvis aspera, blanda domi : {i'^T* ^^* 



Lydia dicebar domino fidissiiua dextra, 



Qui non Erigones mallet liabere canem, 

 Nee qui Dictsek Cephalum de gente s^ecutus 



Luciferse pariter venit ad astra Dese. 

 Non me longa dies, nee inutilis abstuiit astas, 



Qualia Dulicliio fata fuere cani : 

 Fulmineo spuniantis apri sura dente pereiiipta, 



Quanlus erat Calydon, ant, Erymanthe, tuus. 

 Nee queror infernas quamvis cito rapta sub uuibias, 



Non potui fato nobiliore mori. 



Venatio ad Ascanium Cardinalem ; — as if the Molossi were remarkably latrant, 

 whereas closeness of mouth was their more distinctive quality : unless indeed this 

 Cardinal of St. Chrysogonua refer to two different sorts of Molossi, the one latrant, 

 the other mute and sagacious : 



Deducunt alii canum phalanges. Poetaj Tres, 



Latrantes abeunt simul molossi P' ^^' ^'^"* Aid. 



-^ . , . . . 1534. 



Mox indaginis unicae sagaces : 



for he subsequently slips some boar-hounds, "perinvia lustra tnussitantes," and 

 others again are distributed about the covert by the harbouiers or huntsmen ; the 

 latter being denominated "feros molossos." 



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