254 



APPENDIX. 



Propert. L. II. race, from the " juga longa Taygeti " which traverse Laconia, a 

 favourite resort of the Sylvan Goddess : 



Virgil. Georg. 

 L. III. 43. 



vocat ingenti clamore Citliasrou, 

 Taygetique canes : 



Ejusdem 

 vs. 343. 



and Amy clean, from the birth-place of Castor and Pollux : 



omnia secum 

 Armentarius Afer agit, tectumque laremque, 

 Armaque Amycleeumque canem, Cressanique pharetram; 



Bulletin 

 Universe!. 



Pliilosoph. 



Transact. 



Vol. 77. p. 24. 



a local epithet also found in a supposed fragment of Pindar, cited 

 by Plutarch, Quaest. Conviv. ix. 13. 748. and admitted amongst the 

 Fragmenta ex Hyporchematibus. Vol. ii. of Heyne's edition. (Oxon. 

 1007.) 



But a few words, before we proceed farther, on the lineage of the 

 oXwTreciSes. 



Modern naturalists, with the exception of Mons. Desmoulins, are 

 pretty generally agreed that the Canis aureus is the real origin of 

 the domestic dog. And if so, being a native of Asia Minor, and 

 of a dirty fulvous colour, may we not suppose him to have been the 

 cross, from which the foxite hounds of Xenophon were bred ? The 

 latter had more or less of a ferine aspect, and fulvous colour, 

 softened down by the admixture of hair of a different hue about the 

 muzzle. Still tawny was the predominant colour — "fulvus Lacon," 

 (Hor.) 



Mr. Hunter denies the existence of a genuine foxite, as the dog 

 and fox are of different species, and will not produce together. 

 Guldenstadt allows the jackal may be the Thos of Aristotle. May 

 he not also be the Thos of Gratius, and " Cat o' mountaine"^ of his 

 translator ? May not Hagnon's pack,^ 



Illustrations of '• ■'^ tetm borrowed, according to Mr. Douce, from the Spaniards, wlio call the wild 

 Shakspeare. cat gato-montes. 



' ' "' ' 2. Ilagnon Astylides — as the Cretans used ayvelv, according to Ilesychius, for 



a7€t»', 6 wyvwv may stand for 6 Kwriyus. See Wernsdorf, Excursus in. ad Gratii 

 V. 215. PoettE Latini Minores, Tom. i. p. 242. 



