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likened in the last book of the ^neid, may be taken to signify any 

 Canis venaticus, and not that of Umbria particularly : 



Vii-oilii i?Lneid. Inclusum velutisi quando flumine nactus 



L. XII. 749. Cervum, aut puaiceee septum formidine pennse, 



Venator cursu, canis et latratibus ixistat ; 

 Ule autem, insidiis et rip^ tenitus aha, 

 • Mille fugit refugitque vias : at vividus Umber 



Haeret hians, jam jamque tenet, similisque tenenti 

 Increpuit raalis, morsuque elusus inani est. 



The true Urabrian, I conceive, was mute — certainly so, until his 

 game was on foot ; as were all the other finders spoken of. But 

 another reason against the dog of Maro being the native dog of Um- 

 bria is this — the poet would never have compared the brave and 

 victorious iEneas to a notoriously timid animal, who " fugit ad versos 

 idem quos repperit hostes — " while the hero was dealing death and 

 destruction on all sides of him ; 



Virgil, ^neid. -3Lneas mortem contra praesensque minatur 



L. xii. 760. Exitium, si quisquam adeat ; terretque trementes 



Excisuruiu urbem minitans ; et saucius instat. 



If the character of the hounds of Umbria be such as stated, on the 

 authority of the ancient Cynegetica, the epithet " audaces " bestowed 

 on them by the Latin poet of Barga must be unmerited ; 



P. Aneelii Celtis velocibus Umbros, 



Bargffii Cyneg. Audaces Umbros, et odoris naribus acres. 



L. V. 



Barthius, erroneously in my opinion, identifies the Tuscan dogs of 



Nemesian with the fierce Molossian-like animals of Oppian's first 



Cynegetic (vs. 413.). To the passage already cited under the Canes 



Bellicosi, the reader is referred, for the purpose of comparison with 



the following from the Carthaginian poet : 



Nemesian. Quin et Tuscorum non est extrema voluptas 



CvHeg.vs. 231. Seepecanum: sit forma illia licet obsita villo, 



Dissimilesque habeant catulis velocibus artus ; 

 Haud tamen injucunda dabunt tibi munera praedse. 

 Naraque et odorato noscunt vestigia prato, 

 Atque etiam leporum secreta cubilia monstrant. 



Oppian's boar and lion-killers have very little resemblance to these 



