282 APPENDIX. 



the Agasseus of Oppian with the gazehound of Britain ; and even 



Ray has made the gazehound a variety of the Canis venaticus sagax, 



distinguished from his supposed consimilars of the same family by 



Synopsis Ani- running on sight of his game — " qui aspectu feras insequitur." 



malium. " i • , ■ i i T»/f i 



Coiintrey Con- From the following portrait, compared with that drawn by Mark- 



tentnients, B. I. y^^^^ ^^, ^^^^ decide the identity of the Agassaeus and Beagle : 



Oppian. Cyneg. tan 5e' ri aKvKaKwv ytvos &\Ktfj.ov Ixvevriipuv, 



' '* *®* Pathv, arap fieydXris avrd^iov efifiev' ootSTjj" 



Tous rpdcpev &ypLa cpvXa Bperavwv alo\ovwTuv, 

 avTap iiriKXifiriv <T<pas ^kyaaaaiovs 6v6/irivav 

 rwv ^T0( fityedos jxfu o/xoiiov ovridavolai 

 KIx^ois oiKiSioun Tpairf^riecrffi KVPttrffi, 

 yvphv, a.(rapK6TaTov, XaffiSrpixov, ofj-fiacri vwOiS' 

 a\\' ouixf(Tffi TtSSas KeKopvdfievov apya\eotffi, 

 Koi Ba/xivo'is KwoSovcrii' aKax/J-efov lo(j)6poi(n. 

 {i'lveai S' aZre fiaKicrTa ■rravf^ox^s iffriv ^Ayacrtrehs, 

 Kol (TTifiiT) iravdpiffTos, eVel Kara ya7av Uvtwv 

 IfX''""' fvpffJ'Cai iJ.4ya 5r) ffocphs, dXAct Ka\ outt/i' 

 XSfio)V rjepiTjf fji.d\a cTTjjujf faffflai ivrpiiiv. 



Let the reader compare these little pet-like, weakly, crooked, lank, 

 wire-haired, dull-looking creatures, keen however, and excellent of 

 nose, with his own experience of the beagle's type and properties, 

 and the representations of authors.^ 



The poet gives some amusing instructions for breaking in the 

 puppy of the Agassaeus ; 



EJHsd. V8. 489. avTap Sy' o7i|/a 



wpivdjj, (ppt/xda T6 Xayoof'iTjs vir' avTfjirjs, 

 Txria /LiacTTe'iiei re Karb, x^ovhs, k. t. \. 



1. A clever representation of a pack of small, long-eared, beagle terriers at their 

 wonted sport of rabbit-catching is given by J. Stradanus, in his 38lh plate, with an 

 explanatory quatrain by K. Dufflaeus : 



Venationes Callidus effossis latitare cuniculus antris 



Ferarum. -£x generare solet. Verum persaepe catelli 



Anglorum celeres fallunt pecus : ore prehendunt 

 Illusum: prsdam venatorique niinistrant. 



