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APPENDIX. 



— her education and her quarry will, at least, assign her to the mus- 

 ter-roll of our first class. 



But of the Canis Molossus Venaticus, enough ; — matchless as he 

 was for stoutness, before Britain was discovered and its race of 

 Canes bellicosi brought into competition with those of Epirus, he at 

 last was compelled to yield the palm of ferocious hardihood to the 

 British bull-dog, and to succumb to his superior prowess : 



Gratii Cyneg. 

 vs. 179. 



At magnum cum venit opus, promendaque virtus, 

 Et vocat extreme pra^ceps discrimine Mavors, 

 Non tunc egregios tantum admirere Molossos. 



Luciani 



Tugitivi. 



De NaturCv 



The second variety of the Epirote noticed by Aristotle, though 

 out of the pale of this epitome, is worth recording from its classical 

 associations, and because it possesses in an eminent degree the 

 canine qualities lauded by Lucian, ro (pvXaKTiKov, to ohovpiKoy, koI to 

 (piKohktJTTOTov — the " tarn fida custodia, tamque amans dominorum 

 Deor. L. 11.63. adulatio, tantumque odium in externos " of Cicero. To this I give 

 the name of Canis Molossus Villaticus, and include under the title 

 the ohovpos, olKO(j)v\a^, nvXawpdi, TpcnreSevs, ostiarius, pastoralis, pe- 

 cuarius, &c. ; names derived from the different uses to which the dog 

 was applied. Let the Villae Custos of Columella be our type : — 

 " amplissimi corporis, vasti latratus canorique, ut prius auditu 

 maleficum, deinde etiam aspectu terreat, et tamen nonnunquam, ne 

 visus quidem, horribili fremitu suo fuget insidiantem,^ &c." — Here 

 we place the sharp-toothed watch-dog of Hesiod's agricultural 

 injunctions ; 



De Re Rust. 

 L. VII. c. 12. 



Opera et Dies. 

 vs. 602. 



(/cal Kvva Kapxctp6SovTa ko/jluv /xt) <pei5eo (t'itov 

 fii] iroTi 0"' riiu.ep6K0iT0S avrip arrh xpi]ixar tArjTai,) 



Metamorph. — here, the " canes rabidos et immanes, et quibusvis lupis et ursis 



L. VIII. p. 553 



saeviores, quos ad tutelae praesidia curiose coloni fuerant alumnati," 



1. Refer to Surflel's translation of Maison Rustique, good reader, if you Lave it, 

 and smile at the portraiture of the watch-dog, the joint execution of 7ny medical 

 brethren, " Charles Stevens and John Liebault, Doctors of Pliysicke." C. 27. 

 p. 1C8. 



