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APPENDIX. 



The noisy bark of the Etolian breed Gratius contrasts with the 

 mute cunning of its neighbour of Acarnania, already considered in 

 the first class 'A 



Cyneg. vs. 186. At clangore citat, quos nondum conspicit, apros 



^tola quaecunque canis de stirpe (malignum 

 OflScium) sive ilia metus convicia rupit, 

 Seu frustra niinius properat furor. Et tamen illud 

 Ne vanum totas genus asperuere per artes, 

 Mirum quam celeres, et quantum nare merentur: 

 Turn non est victi cui concessere labori. 



Too much addicted to gladdening, when near the lair of his game, 



(Sir Thomas Lucy's, perhaps, or other Warwickshire squire's) to our classic breed 

 of the olden time : 



Midsummer I was with Hercules and Cadmus once, 



Night's Dream. When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear 



Act IV. „„ , ^ •' 



With hounds of Sparta : never did I hear 



Such gallant chiding; for besides the groves, 



The skies, the fountains, every region near 



Seem'd all one mutual cry : I never heard 



So musical a discord, such sweet thunder. 



With Angelio's description of the Cretan hounds, the more striking features of 

 which are drawn from passages already cited, I close their portraiture. 



P, A. Bargffii Est eadeni facies, et eidem proxima formas 



JO''' Corpora : niembrorum sed non asquantia molera 



Dictaeis, animus tamen, et constantia pugnax, 

 Quandoquidem serus litem si forte diremit 

 Vesper, et obtentis umbrantur rura tenebris ; 

 Nusquani abeunt, nusquam vestigia pressa reiinquunt, 

 Veriim haerent vigiles, &c. 



1. The dog, wliich sits at the foot of the noble statue of Meleager, is, probably, a 

 representation of the animal which assisted the hero of Calydon in his attack of the 

 Ovid. Metam. wild boar — (" infestae famulus, vindexque Diance") — that had laid waste the domain 

 L.viii. vs. 272. of his father (Eneus. (See F. Perrier, Tab. 51. and 52. ex yEdibus Picliiniis, and 

 Montfaucon Antiq. Expliq. Tom. I.) He is apparently a boar-hound, and per- 

 haps of the type of Etolia or Calydon — the names being indifferently applied to the 

 same dog, from Calydon, (the rocky Calydon of the Homeric catalogue, Iliad ii. 

 640.) the capital of the state, over which the sons of (Eneus once reigned. 



