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Gratii Cyneget. premit inventas, non inventura latentes 



^'- ^0^- Ilia feras. 



and therefore the Belgian — Canis occultos agitat cum Belgicus apros 

 — must be banished from hence to the sagacious class : amongst the 

 inductores of which division, I have already placed him as a lime- 

 hound. 



The best description of the type of the present class will be found 

 in the copious Manual of Arrian, c. iv. v. and vi. — introduced by the 

 memorable summary at the conclusion of c. ill. — r?/r ^e Ibeav, kuXov 

 Ti "^ij7]hu. etai, Kara, re tovs 6(j)daXfiovs ai yeyraioTarai avTwv k"a< Kara to 

 auifxa anap Kal rt]V Tpi^a Ka\ Ti]v ypoaV ovtid tois re TroiKiXais eirardel 

 TO TroiictXoy, Kai ocrais olttX^ f] XP^*^ ecriv a7ro(TriX/3et Kai avTi], Kai kaTiv 

 i\hi(TTov deafta avbpi dnpevTiK^. And the following of Nemesian, who 

 may be designated the poet of the pedibus celeres, as Gratius of the 

 bellicosi, is correct as far as it goes ; 



Nemesian. Elige tunc cursu facilem, faciiemque recursu, 



Cyneget. jjon humili de gente canem. Sit cruribus altis, 



vs. lOG. „...,., 



Sit rigidis, multamque gerat sub pectore lato 



Costarum sub fine decenter prona carinam, 



QuEe sensim rursus sicc&. se coiligat alvo, 



Renibus ampla satis vadis, diductaque coxas, 



Cuique nimis molles fluitent incursibus aures. 



Nor must I omit the beautiful and minutely faithful portrait of the 

 Greek poetof Anazarbus, though aware that it has been appropriated 

 to a variety of the ware sagaces, and that Rittershusius does not 

 allude to any supposed resemblance to the Celtic dog in his commen- 

 tary on Oppian. Bearing in mind, however, that this erudite 

 scholar had only the writings of Xenophon and Pollux, and the 

 scanty lines of the Faliscian and African poets, to aid his attempt to 

 give name and place to a doubtful animal ; — had no authorities to 

 consult, particularly dedicated to the pedibus celeres in opposition to 

 the nare sagaces, to whose cause, and that of the bellicosi, the 

 Greek Cynegetica were exclusively, and the Latin principally con- 

 fined, (for the treatise of Arrian was at that period undiscovered in 

 the Vatican,) — and therefore could not assimilate the Oppianic 

 hound to the Celtic type ; — I am not at all surprised that he has left 

 this resemblance unnoticed. Subsequent commentators following in 

 his footsteps, the Celtic dog has been as entirely disregarded on Op- 

 pian 's page, as if he had been never admitted on his muster-roll. 



