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APPENDIX. 



Ovid. Fast. 

 L. III. 



or even of a Caledonian deer-hound, of which Argus has been 

 deemed a prototype, invalidates the claim to ehyeyeia in the breed.^ 

 Diana having been particularly veorshipped in Crete," 



De Natura 

 Animal. L. iii. 



C. II. 



De Venat. 



C. III. 



Pallada Cecropice, Minoia Creta Dianam, 

 Vulcanum tellus Hjpsipilaja, colit, ... 



vpe naturally look for a race of dogs deriving a local name from her 

 favourite isle. And, accordingly, connected with the last-mentioned 

 tribe of Canes Venatici, we have the Cretan and Carian, powerful, 

 quick-scented, nimble hounds ; whom it would be wrong unnaturally 

 to dissever, as having no marked physical peculiarities. Indeed 

 from their parity of character, and supposed identity of origin, the 

 hounds of Crete, and its neighbouring continent of Caria, have gene- 

 rally been united in one family, 



^lian describes the Kvojf Kpijcraa Kovcpr], Kai aXriKii], Kai opei^aaiais 

 cvrrpofos. By Seneca the Cretans are called pugnacious — " pug- 

 naces Cressae;" and by Claudian, wire-haired — " Hirsutaeque 

 fremunt Cressse." Arrian, when speaking of the Segusian hounds of 



J. Darcii 



Veiiusini 

 Canes. 



Solini 

 Polyhistor. 



1. To Darcius of Venusium we owe the following description of the ardour of the 

 Spartan pack ; 



Inde suos etenim Lacedaemon Achaica laudat, 

 Assueti quoniam sylvis, ciipidique ferarum 

 Praecipiti fervore ruunt, perque invia lustra, 

 Convallesque cavas, et sentibus horrida duris 

 Arva, et vulnificis dumeta rigentia spinis 

 Dente rotant preedas, indefessique sequuntur 

 Quod semel emissum est. Illos non obvius aninis 

 Vicinos dirimens sinuuso gurgite coUes, 

 Sistit, nee rapidos lato tenet obice cursus. 

 Et licet assiduo frangantur anhela boatu 

 Ora, trahantque aegros afflictis viribus artus, 

 Assequier tamen est animus, &c. 



2. Solinus and Pliny, while they admit the religious adoration of Diana by the 

 natives of Crete, deny to the soil many of the common beasts of chase. '' Ager 

 Creticus," says the former naturalist, "sylvestrium caprarum copiosus est, cervo 

 cget. Lupos, vulpes, aliaque quadrupedum noxia nusquam educat." 



