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APPENDIX. 



Natalis Comes 

 de Venat. L. i. 



to; Castor, according to Nicander, having united the dog to the 

 fox, and produced a hybrid sort of sporting hound of great repute. 



Castorides venatori gratissima tiirba. 



But as if Castor and Pollux, being twin brothers, born whh-i fiiij, 

 (ApoUon. L. I.) possessed a common identity, the honour of having 

 first initiated the canine race in the pursuit of game, is indifferently 

 awarded to both. Oppian, we have already seen, bestows it on 

 Pollux, and Xenophon on Castor — " ovo prognatus eodera." Ari- 

 stotle considers all the Canes Laconici to be of the sort called uXw^-e- 

 Ktbes — not that they were all sprung from the fox and dog, but were 

 fox-like in appearance : — and on the same authority, we hold that 



Hist. Animal, the bitches of a Spartan kennel were superior to the dogs — AaKai- 

 vai Kvves ai 0)/Aetat eu^i/eorepat tujv apperiov eiai. 



Although the eloquent compiler of the Cynegeticus distinguishes 

 his harriers, as above stated, into Castorian and Foxite hounds, he 

 notes no characteristic peculiarities in either : but Themistius, the 

 Paphlagonian philosopher, induces us to believe that each possessed 



Oratio xxvii. the distinctive features of a particular family — eTcpov fxev koXXos 

 Ka(TTopib(i)v Kvvwv, erepov be uXwneKibtjy. Vlitius's fanciful emenda- 

 tion of the text of the Onomasticon has led him into an error, and 

 produced the monstrous birth of a third variety, which he ascribes to 

 Julius Pollux, called aXuTreKiKacTTopes ; but which that learned man's 

 work will not admit. 



Of the whole Spartan tribe the swiftest, perhaps, were the Kvyotrov 

 pibes of Callimachus — deriving their name from Cyxosura of La- 

 conia — 



Statii 

 Thebaid. L. iv. 



Dives et Orchomenos pecorum, et Cynosura ferarum. 



They were the gift of the Arcadian God Pan to Diana, and pos- 

 sessed sagacity of nose equal to their speed of foot :^ 



1 . With some of the descendants of the KwoffovplSes, the latrant sagacious Lacoiini 

 of the modern Votizza, Mr. Ilobliouse reports that lie enjoyed the sport of coursing 

 with his Grecian host in the Morea. See Journey through Albania, Letter 



SVII. 



