266 APPENDIX. 



Gratii Cjneg. mature pressantes gaudia lusu 



vs. 207. Dissimulare feras tacitique accedere possent. 



Steadiness and a close mouth are essential attributes of the lime- 

 hound tribe. 1 Gratius, Lucan, Seneca, iElian, and others, insist on 

 silence. And Oppian, seemingly forgetful of this negative quality 

 in the Armenian bear-hound, (whom I consider a limehound,) incul- 

 cates closeness in sagacious dogs, generally, from their very puppy- 

 hood ; 



ppian. Cyneg. M'?^' v\6.eiv e6e\oiiv, iirei /jidKa 67]pevTrip(ri 



L. I. 448. (Tcyrj ridiii6s icm, iravfloxa. S* Ixvevrripaiv. 



They are to be taught it with their names, and other matters of 

 kennel discipline. 



The limiers of classical antiquity, more numerous perhaps than 

 the reader may suppose, are found widely distributed. We gather 

 traces of them in Homer, Lucretius, Virgil, Pliny, Gratius, iElian, 

 Seneca, Nemesian, Oppian, Silius Italicus, and others. The Belgic 

 hound of the poet of the Second Punic War is certainly an inductor 

 or limier : 



Silii Italici de '^^ canis ocultos agitat quum Belgicus apros, 



2''o B. P. L. X. Erroresque ferae sellers per devia mersk 



Nare legit, taciloque premens vestigia rostro 

 Lustrat inaccessos venantum indagine saltus : 

 Nee sistit, nisi concepturii sectatus odorem, 

 Deprendit spissis arcana cubilia dumis. 



And it strikes me, that the Gelonian and Umbrian of Gratius, the 

 Tuscan of Nemesian, and the Armenian bear-hound of Oppian, are 

 all varieties of limehound. Of the Metagon, already mentioned, 

 there can be no doubt — he is clearly of the class described by the 

 Greek poet of the Halieutics: 



Oppian. Hal. (TKvXaKes Se ffvvefiiropoi jjyefiov^es 



L. I. 18. KUwSaKa ffrifialvovcri, koI lOvyovatP &vaKTas 



evp^iv eh oOtV — 



1. See the mode of breaking-in the limier, chien de f raid, in J. Savary's rare 

 work, Venationis Cervinae Leges, L. ii. sub initio. 



