I 



Ai'i'r.Knix. 253 



liTTi S' *^5«/c6 Callin.ach. It 



„, , , ,« « , ^ -► in Dian. vs.DS. 



vaffffovas avpawv KwoffovplSas, al pa oicu^ai 



&Ki(Trai ve$povs re koL ov nvovra Xaywhu, 



Ka\ koi'ttjv t\d,(poio, Kal vffrpix^s tvda KaKial • 



<n)ixrit>ai, Kal ^opKhs iv^ Ifx"""' ■^TWaff^ai • • • 



— and near a-kin to them, we may suppose, if not of the same blootl, 

 were the brace presented by the worshipful Agrotera to her much- 

 favoured Cyrene : 



— dijpTjTTJpe Svai Kvve, tois tvi Kovpri Ejusn. vs. 207. 



'Yiprits irapa Tvfj.fiof 'Ico\kiov efifiop' ai8\ov. 



But of fable, enough — The Spartan's shape, qualities, and style of 

 hunting, singly and in pack, are fully described by Xenophon in the 

 third, fourth, and sixth chapters of his Manual. The quarry is here 

 that of which the Athenian was most enamoured, viz. the hare, — with 

 which the woods and parks of his Scilluntian retreat abounded. But 

 for the boar-chase the hound of Lacedaemon is also employed. To 

 the Indian, Cretan, and Locrian dogs, the sportsman, who would Xenophon de 

 successfully combat the savage boar, must add the choicest indivi- 

 duals of the Spartan kennel. And in this chase, he will find one of 

 the latter hounds most useful as a Umier,^ to follow up the trail to 

 the boar's couch in silence, and then, with the rest of the pack, to 

 bay the started quarry : 



Fulmineus seu Spartanis latratibus actus, "'"* Italici de 



^ , ,..•,. 2<"' bello 



Cum sylvam occursu venantura perdidit, hirto Punico L. i. 



Horrescit saevus dorse, et postrema capessit 



Praelia, candentem mandens aper ore cruorem : 



Jamque geraens geminum contra venabula torquet. 



Julius Pollux, on the authority of Nicander, has transmitted to us Onomastic,^ 

 subordinate varieties of the Spartan, entitled MjweZfliWes from Mene- 

 laus, Harmodii from Harmodius, and others from other persons, and 

 places of inferior note. Virgil applies the epithets Taygetan to the 



1. A limehound — ri 5e kvwv eVl tJ» -koXv acpi^erai toirov v\wSr) Ix^evovau . .. — ' Xenophon de 



iveiSav 8' a(piK7)rai iirl Trjv (wrjv, v\aKTe7, k. t. A. Venat, c. x. 



