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comparing his restlessness to that of a young woman in travail with 

 her first child, 



0)1 8* Sre Tis Kovprf ZiKarov irepi ju^i/a <Tf\i\vrii Ejusd. vs. 493. 



irporroTdKOS \oxill(riv iir' wSli>e<T(Ti rinrfiffa, k. t. \, 



The praises of the little beagle have been celebrated in Greek and 

 Latin, verse and prose. Amongst the modern poets, he is found in 

 the Album Dian^e Leporicidae of Jac. Savary, under the title of 

 " ululatorum ordo minorum" — "gens parvis devota feris;" and I-'b. n. p. 18. 

 placed in the kennels of Britain — still sufficiently marked by her 

 insular, geographical position, and the staunchness of her canine 

 breed, but, unfortunately for the loyalty of Savary 's own country- 

 men, no longer exclusively/ characterized by the traitorous, regicide 

 spirit of her inhabitants : 



Insula quos gignit septein vicina trioni, 

 Terra canum laudata fide, damnata virorum 

 Perfidi^, Regisque sui execranda cruore, &c. 



He is also mentioned by Angelinas Gazaeus — see the Lagographia 

 Curiosa of Paullini. Of the Greek portrait of Arrian we shall pre- 

 sently speak, under the Segusian dog. 



It is to Gervase Markham, our " English master of economical 

 philosophy," as Wase calls him, that we are indebted for the fullest 

 description of *' the little beagle, which may be carried in a man's 

 glove;" — " bred," says Gervase, " for delight only, being of cu- 

 rious scents, and passing cunning in their hunting, for the most part 

 tiring, but seldome killing the prey, except at some strange advan- 

 tage." " Their musicke is very smalle, like reeds, and their pace Countrey Con- 

 like their body, onely for exercise, and not for slaughter." J"^" ^^. *^' 



The Segusian dog mentioned by Arrian, in the third chapter of his 

 Treatise on Coursing, as a sorry brute, quick-scented, with a pitiful 

 and dolorous whine, instead of bark — rough and unsightly, and the 

 more high-bred the more ugly — I believe to be identical with the 

 last variety. The Bithynian has devoted an entire chapter of his 

 entertaining and original manual to a description of the 'Eyovalat 

 Kvvei : whose name, he tells us, is derived from a Celtic people,^ 



1. Cesar places the Segusiani in Gallia Celtica — " Hi sunt extra provinciani trans Cspsar de B. G. 



Rhodanum priiui." Wljy, then, may we not suppose these hounds correctly deno- 



L. I. 10. 



