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traxerc aninios dc patre GeloiKi' CJr.uii Vvnv". 



Ilyrcano. vs. 11)5. 



'I'lio l^mbrirtii li;ul iimch of the Gclonian character — timorous and 

 soft — but remarkably keea of nose. AVishiug to incorporate every 

 good quality in the same mongrel breed, Gratius ejaculates — 



At fugit adversos idem quos reperit hostes Gratii (.'yiieg. 



vs 171 

 Umber.' Quanta fides, utinam et solertia nans, 



Tanta foret virtus, et tantura vellet in arniis ! 



Silius Italicus notes the sagacity of the Umber, and seems to 

 indicate his closeness of mouth in the contrasted barking of 

 the Spartan, 



Ceu pernix cum densa vagis latratibua implet Silii Ital. dc 



Venator dumeta Lacon, aut exiarit Umber r. • r 



° runico L. iii. 



Nare sagax e calle feras perterrita late 

 Agmina praicipitant volucres forraidine cervi. 



But his habits are most vividly sketched in an elegant simile of 

 Seneca's Thyestes, vi'here Atreus, exulting in his artful entrapping of 

 his brother, (as a w^ild beast enveloped in the hunter's toils — plagis 



clusa dispositis fera, — ) exclaims in a strain of ill-dissembled 



self-gratulation, 



venit in nostras raanus Senecas 



Tandem Thyestes ; venit, et totus quidem. A -r n 4<)'' 



Vix lempero animo, vix dolor frenos capit : 

 Sic, cum feras vestigat, et longo sagax 

 Lore tenetur Umber, ac presso vias 

 Scrutatur ore; diim procul lento suem 

 Odore sentit, paret, et tacito locum 

 Rostro pererrat: preeda cum propior fuit; 

 Cervlce tola pugnat, et gestu vocat 

 Dominura raorantem, seque retinenti eripit. 



The Virgilian Umbrian, to which ^neas in pursuit of Turnus is 



1. " Umber is here," says Wase, " the liracco of Italy ; and as their dog is timo- 

 rous, so their bore is not very courageous. Whence the poet, — 'I'huscus aper gcnc- 

 rosior Umbro." 



