APPENDIX. 



263 



primusque Melampus 

 Iclinobatcsque sagax latralu signa dedere ; 

 Gnossius Iclinobates, Spai-tanri gente Melampus; 



Ovid. Metam. 

 L. III. 206. 



and subsequently a litter, 



that had a sire of Crete 

 And dam of Sparta, 



as sings Sir Arthur Golding 



Golding's 



Ovid's Metam. 



B. III. 



Et patre Dictso, sed niatre Laconide nati, 

 Labros et Agriodos, etacutae vocis H^lactor. 



Indeed almost all the O vidian pack were of Cretan, Spartan, and 

 Arcadian blood, well chosen by the poet for the fabled chase of the 

 son of Autonoe,^ " falsi sub imagine cervi " — " 



€VT€ Tavwrpeixvoto KaB^ifievos v\p6di (priyov, 

 MvajxeVTis ivurjaev oXov Se^as lox^o.lp-qs' 

 6rfi\r^p 8' aK6pr]Tos adrjiiToio Oeatvris 

 ayphv avvfj.(pevroio Sefias Steixerpee Kovpri? 

 ayxt<po.viis, k. t. A. 



The whole of the Spartan family, inclusive of the Cretan and Ca- 

 rian, appear to have barked, as I have already observed, on scent of 

 their game^ — a quality reprobated by Gratius (malignum officium !) 

 when shown before the quarry was started from his lair. 



Ovid. Metam. 

 vs. 223. 



Nonni 



Dionysiac. 



L. V. 



1. Claudian bestows the title Molossian on the entire pack, to designate, it may 

 be, their ferocity : 



Sic mons Aonius rubuit, cum Penthea ferrent 

 Meenades ; aut subito mutatum Actajona cornu 

 Traderet insanis Latonia visa Molossis. 



2. The stag Actajon iu the stream had spied 

 The naked huntress, and, for seeing, died : 

 His hounds, unknowing of his change, pursue 

 Tiie chase, and their mistaken master slew ! 



3. The loud latrancy of the tribe escaped not the notice of the bard of Avon, who 

 Las cleverly appropriated much of the borrowed shape and KAayjii of a modern pack 



In Rufinuni 

 L. II. 



Dryden. 

 Palamon and 

 Arcite. B. ii. 



