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islands. The wolf and the wild boar yielded to their prowess;^ Blount's 



11 1 • .11^ I •• • • Ancient 



and they are thence sometimes called (. anes luporarii in ancient Tenures. 



tenures. 



Having mentioned the bellicosi of Molossia and Britain in verses 



already cited, Gratius compares others to them in the sequel ; 



Comparat Lis versuta suas Athamania fraucles," Cyneg. vs. 182. 



Acyrusque,^ Plierecque,'' et claiidestinus Acarnan. 



Sicut Acamanes subierunt pra'lia fiirto, 



Sic canis ilia suos taciturna supervenit hostes. 



1. The existence of these noxious beasts of prey, in the sylvan fastnesses of our 

 islands, is too well authenticated by ancient records to be doubted. 



Foure manere bestis of Venere there are : Book of 



The fyrste of theym is the liarte : the seconde is the hare. ^'•' Alban s. 



The boore is one of tho : the wulfe and not one mo. 



On referring to Blount's ancient tenures, we find many estates held per serjantiam, 



whereby the possessor was compelled to furnish these dogs for the destruction of 



wolves. See A. T. p. 15. p. 52. p. 60. p. 94. " But Almighty God be thanked," in TheGovernour. 



the ejaculatory language of Sir Thomas Elyot, "in this realme be no such cruel B. i. c. xviii. 



beastes at present to be pursued !'' 



See Wase's Illustrations, c. vi. " of the Styles of Hunting different from the 

 English, both Antique and Forreigne." 



Mr. Ritson, in a posthumous work on the Celts, has left it on record that " the Blemoirs of 

 Britons, in the last decade of the eighteenth century, made use of Spanish dogs in a ^}^^ Celts or 

 war with the IMaroon negroes ; having no longer any of their own fit for the pur- r> if 1 



pose." 



2. In Pliny's animated description of the Indian or Albanian dog's assault, we ob- 

 serve the crafty wiles or fraudes of the Illyrian and Acarnanian breeds. " Horrentibus Hist. Natur. 

 quippe per totum corpus villis, ingenti primiim latratu intonuit : mox inruitassultans, L. viii. c. xl. 

 contraque belluam exurgens hinc et illinc attifici dimicatione qua maxime opus esset, 



iiifestans atque evitans, donee assidua rotatum vertigine afflixit." Indeed all the bel- 

 licosi thus attack their prey — but generally in silence. The Indian was latrant, it 

 seems, the Acarnanian mute. 



Athamania, called also Illyricum, bordered on Thessaly and Acarnania. 



3. Acyrus, saysWase, is " suspicious of corruption ;" ,which Gronovius proposes Geography of 

 to amend by reading Epirus, Vlititis substitutes Taygetus, and Heinsius Argivus. Oratius. 



4. Pherce was situate between Demetrias and Pharsalus in Thessaly, near the lake 



Bccbe — virh (TKOiririu opeos XaXKoiSouloLO. I am not aware of the dogs of these several Anollon. Bhod. 

 places being mentioned by any other author. Pheras was probably celebrated for its L. i. vs. jO. 



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