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APPENDIX. 



Gratii Cyneg. 

 V8. 199. 



Ejusdem 

 vs. 207. 



Hitherto we have said nothing of the race of sagacious hunting- 

 dogs, most commonly known by the name of hounds,^ the Petronius 

 of Gratius,2 the 'Ayao-trevs of Oppian, and the Segusian of Arrian,' 

 The Petronius belongs to the family of fleet sagacious hounds ; 



at te leve si qua 

 Tangit opus, pavidosque juvat compellere dorcas, 

 Aut versuta sequi leporis vestigia parvi : 

 Petronios (sic faraa) canes, volucresque Sicambros, 

 Et pictam macula. Vertraham delige falsa. 

 Ocyor aifectu mentis piunaque cucurrit, 

 Sed premit inventas, non inventura latentes 

 Ilia feras ; quas Petroniis bene gloria constat. 



We here see the distinction between the harrier and greyhound, the 

 former running on scent, the latter on sight.* That the Petronii 

 opened as soon as they hit upon the trail of their game, before it was 

 roused, is much regretted by the poet — 



Quod si maturo pressantes gaudia lusu 

 Dissimulare feras tacitique accedere possent : 



Minsli?ei 



Emend, in 



voce. 



Hist. Nat. 



L. 1.255. 



Gloss. Arch. 



p. 114. 

 Ejusd. p. 7. 

 Wase's illus- 

 trations. 



Arrian. de Van. 

 c. III. in not. 



The Countrey 



Farme, by 

 G. Markhara. 



1. Hound is sometimes applied to all dogs, as if Minsliew's and Junius's derivation 

 of the term were correct — a kvu'iSiov dim. a kvcov : but in England the term most 

 commonly signifies a hunting-dog, to which sense the A. S. huntian, hent-an, to pur- 

 sue, to search after, affords a more probable root. 



2. The etymology of the term Petronius is not of easy solution. By critics it has 

 been fancifully derived from the firnmess, strength, and hardness of the feet of this 

 variety of dog ; in consequence of which he was enabled to run over rough and rocky 

 ground without injury — kvuv tvirovs. Gesner mentions a tributary stream of the 

 Tiber called Petronia, " quod per petras fluat." Spelman, in his Glossary, gives 

 Peirunculus as a synonym of Petronius, citing the above passage of Gratius ; and 

 under Acceptor, explains Petrunculus in a marginal note by " a bracket." The 

 Spanish use Perro, says Wase, as their common appellation of a dog. 



3. Schneider substitutes 'Eyovcriai for 'Eyovfflat, (spirilu tnutato) — the Latin term 

 being Segusii, as e|, sex. ^.eyovclai, Blancard. 



4. " Greyhounds are onely for the coursing of all sorts of wilde beasts by main 

 Bwiftnesse of foot ; they doe not any thing more than their eies govern them unto, 

 being led by a natural instinct or hatred which they beare to all sorts of wilde 

 beasts." — " Hounds are tliose which by vertue of their scents, smells, or noses, do 

 find out all manner of wilde beasts," &c. — See the distinctions of the two races ad- 

 mirably drawn by G. Markham, p. 673. of Surflet's version of La Maison Rustique. 



