244 APPENDIX. 



Pitisci Lexicon tomary with the ancients to have porter-dogs ^ — " nioris erat atriensi- 

 ntiqiut. Yms fores servari a canibus," — such were the rrvXawpoi and rpaTreiiies 

 of Homer, the attendants at the door of Telemachus, Kvyes Trobas 

 apyoi, (Odyss. v. 144.) — the house-dogs of Patroclus, nine in num- 

 ber — of whom two were slain, and offered on his funeral pile, (Iliad. 

 ;//'. 173.) and the Kvres wfxrjaral of Priam — whose anticipated reckless 

 laceration of his dead body — ttoXIov re Kapj], ttoXwv re yeveiov — by 

 the TTvXau/poi, is pleaded by the aged king to deter his ill-fated son 

 from contending with Achilles. (Iliad, j^'. 69.) — Such too were the 

 gemini custodes of Evander, which followed their rustic king to the 

 dormitory of his Trojan guest, (^neid. L. viii. 461.)" 



As an attribute of the porter-dogs, speed was utterly unnecessary, 

 though given to those of Telemachus, above cited : and that they 

 generally possessed it not is implied, I think, in the question of 

 Ulysses to Eumjeus, as to the character of the " unhoused, neg- 

 lected " Argus ; 



Odyss. L. XVII. ov ffdcpa olSa 



ei S^ Kol raxvs fCKe Ofeiv enl elSe'i rcfSe, 

 i) avTcos oToi re rpaTre^jjfs ki5v6s avhpuiv 

 yiyvovr', ayKdtris S' 'iveKev Kop-iovcnv &vaKr€S. 



Ulysses Aldrovandus, Spelman, and Ducange, have left us the 

 many titles of the watch-dogs of the classic and middle ages, in their 

 respective works. See Aldrovand. de Quad. Digit. Vivip. L. ii. 



1. Statues and pictures of Kvvis fpovpoSS/jLoi were sometimes exhibited on the 

 entrance doors, or walls of vestibules — of which kind were the dogs wrought of gold 

 and silver by Vulcan for Alcinous, Au/jia <pvXa(Tffi(iivai fxeyaXiiropos 'AA/civJoio— and 

 •the Canis Catenarius of Petronius Arbiter — " ad sinistram intrantibus non longe ab 

 ostiarii cella, canis ingens catena vinctus in pariete erat pictus, superque quadratS, 

 liteia scriptum, CAVE CAVE CANEM." — Even Mercury himself was some- 

 times there exhibited — upon the principle, I suppose, of setting a thief to catch a 

 thief. 



2. Aristotle alludes to Porter dogs in his Nicomachean Ethics, L. vii. c. vi. 

 introducing them in a very pertinent illustration of the difference between inconti- 

 nency of anger, and incontinency as to pleasure : anger seems to listen to reason, 

 though it does not hear it distinctly, &c. — KaQdinp ol Kvves, irp\v ffKi^^MT&ai ei (pihos, 

 iStv ixSyou ypocpricrr) , xiKaKTOvaiv o'lnuis 6 6ufj,hs,Siit Oep/xSrriTa u. r. X. 



