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Of the larger and more powerful varieties the type is given by 

 Xenoplion in the tliird and fourth chapters of his Cynegeticns, and 

 by Julius Pollux in the fifth book of his Onomasticon : — that of 

 the smaller and more nimble sorts will be found hereafter in the 

 examples of the Canis Petronius of Gratius, and the Canis Agassicus 

 of Oppian. The names of the hounds, principally derived from the 

 countries of which they were supposed to be indigenous, have been 

 already enumerated. Their mode of hunting is faithfully struck off 

 by the Latin poet of the Halieutica, a fragment of disputed author- 

 ship, heretofore attributed to Ovid, but latterly to Gratius : 



Qu^ nunc elatis riiiiantur naribus auras, 



Et nunc demisso qu<eruut vestigia rostro, 



Et produnt clamore feram, doniinumque vocando 



Increpitant. Quern si collatis effugit arrais, 



Insequitur tumulosque canis camposque per omncs. 



In our descriptions of the pugnacious class, we followed, where 

 able, the order of the Faliscian's Cynegeticon, — filling up lacunaj, 

 when apparent, from extraneous sources; but, in the present class, 

 we have no such text-book by which to regulate our progress, and 

 must be beholden to the Greek and Latin Cynegetica, collectively, 

 for an arrangement of the individuals of this class in such sequence, 

 as the scale of their importance in the kennels of antiquity may seem 

 to justify. And first, and foremost, we place the well-known hound 

 of Lacedeemon. 



The Spartan dog, in its two varieties of Castorian and Foxite, was 

 employed by Xenophon for the common purposes of hunting.^ The 

 Kaaropiai were so called on Koorwp yitrdels 7w epyu) juaXtara avras bie- 

 (pvXa^ey ; or, in the words of the Onomasticon, because they were 

 K.aaTopos dpcfifiara, *A.ir6X\u)vos to hwpov. 



H^ojuat 4k SirapTTjs erepovs Kvvas, oiis hrvraXKii. 

 TiWiwv is epcuTtt ffJLhs Koipvetos 'AnSWuy. 



Ilalieutic. 

 vs. 100. 



Xenophon 

 Cj'neg. c. III. 



Pollucis 



Onomast. L. v 



c. V. 3!i. 



Nonni 



Dion\si«c, 



L. XVI. 



The aXuTreKibes had their name bion bk kvvSiv kcu aXwirei^wy kyevov- ^^°' ^^"^8' 



1. Perhaps Xenoplion's to 5e 7eVjj rwv kwoov eVri Zuraa may not. have so confined 

 an application as here stated. The KaarSpiaL and aAwireKtScs may comprehend ajl 

 the Canes Venatici of the Athenian's day collectively — at least all such as were used ' 

 by him in hare-hunting at Scillus. 



