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APPENDIX. 



Saevit in absentem, et circum vestigia latrans 

 Aera per nitidura tenuds sectatur odores : 

 Non amnes illara raedii, non ardua tardant, 

 Perdita nee serae merainit decedere nocti. 



—affording the Cilician copyist one of a profusion of highly poetical 

 similes, with which he depicts the polypus, or preke, searching for 

 its beloved olive-tree : 



Oppian. 



Halieut. L. iv. 



vs. 272. 



fvda 7cfcp ayXaSKap'TTOs aXhs ffx^^i" iiTTiv i\alrj 



ye'iTOffiv eV yowolcrty eiroKToiT) Tfda\v7a, 



Ketdi Se irovXviroSos v6os eA/ceTOt, rivr eV txvos 



Kvooffffiov evpivoio Kvvhs ixlvos, Sar' eV opearfft 



6r]phs avtxvevei (tkoM^u fidffiy i^epeeivQiv 



pivhs vn ayye\ir) vr]fj.eprei, Kai re fi.iv Siku 



fidp-if/e, Kol ovK ifj.drriaei', ehv S" iireKacrffev &vaKTa' 



&s Kol r7i\iQ6w<xav &(pap /iddev eyyhs iXalriv 



■KovKinros, iKBvvn 5e fivdZv, Kol ya7av avfpiret 



K07xoA-rfa)y, "irpeixvoicn 5' 'A0rjvai7;s eTre'Aacrcrej'. 



In connexion with the kindred Spartans, the Cretans are briefly 

 See Werusdorf mentioned by Gratius, — an allusion being, probably, intended to an 

 intermixture of the two allied breeds in order to produce the Meta- 

 gon,i whose praises are subsequently sung : 



in loco. 



Gratii Cyneg. 

 vs. 211. 



Wase's 

 Illustrations. 

 c. 5. p. 38. 



At vestrum non vile genus, non patria vulgd, 

 Sparta sues et Creta sues promittit alumnos. 



To your higli breed countries of dogs not base, 

 Sparta and Creta do conferre their race. 



Ovid specifies them by name in Actaeon's blood-thirsty pack. 



Gralii Cyneg. 

 vs. 231. 



1. This canine name is not found in any other Cynegeticon. From the construc- 

 tion put on the passage by Wernsdorf, it appears that he would derive the Metagon 

 from a Spartan and Cretan cross : but how, let me ask, could the huntsman breed a 

 mute inductor, whose essential attribute was closeness, "ne voce lacesseret hostem," 

 from the union of two such latrant races ? — A litter, so bred in Actaeon's pack, was 

 any thing but mute, " Labros, et Agriodos, et acutcB vocis Hylactor," as above cited. 

 Wase's interpretation of the passage is more correct — see his version, vs. 211. where 

 the lines of Gratius are differently rendered than in the chapter on the geography of 

 the poem, p. 38. 



