APPrNDIX. 



287 



The courser, I am confident, will recognize many of the features, as 

 well as the wonted quarry, of l)is favourite hound, in the following 

 extract; — which, if it cannot be exclusively appropriated to the Ver- 

 tragus of Celtica, will assuredly admit only the swiftest of the saga- 

 cious class to a participation of its type ; 



fir^KeSauhv Kparephv Sf/xas, &pKiov ijSe Ka.pr]vov, 

 Kov(pov ivykr)uov, Kvaval (niX^oiev OTrdnrai' 

 Kapxapov, iKTobiov re\4doi (TTdfjia, ^aia S' vrripBev 

 uijara \eiTTa\4oi(n iripKTreWoipB^ vfievecrcn' 

 Seip^ fir]Kfdavi], koI ari]Qea vepOe KpaTUia, 

 ei/pfa' TO! Trpoadev 5e t' oM^orepai irJSe taroiv, 

 bpQoreviis kuKcov ravaol SoAiXT^pees idrol, 

 cupees wfioirXaTai, irKevpwv iiriKcipcna rapah.^ 

 ocr(j>ies fSffapKoi, fiij irloves' avrhp Sriade 

 ffrpicpv^ t' iicrdStSs re tt4Koi dokix^ffKios ovpi]. 

 Toloi fxev Tavao'uTLU i(poir\i^oivTO SpSfioicri 

 SSpKois, r)5' i\d<poi(Tiv, a,e?<A6iroSl re Xa7Cii^. 



The advocate of the Celtic hound may allege, in support of his in- 

 terpretation, that such ancient dogs as ran on scent were more or less 

 long-eared, 1 — being so represented on the monuments of antiquity ; 

 — and may ask how the small ears of Oppian's dog, if interpreted of 

 the sagacious class, are to be reconciled with the representations of 

 Tempesta, Montfaucon, and others, and the down-hanging ears of 

 modern Canes Venatici of the keen-nosed class? Again — astheCili- 

 cian was a perfect adept at versifying with the materials furnished by 

 his predecessors, and certainly made the best use of their labours, is 

 it not improbable that he should have altogether omitted the Celtic 

 greyhound, so faithfully portrayed by the younger Xenophon, (with 

 whose description that of the poet in no essential point differs,) and 

 have mentioned two varieties of sagaces and one of bellicosi, to the 

 entire neglect of the Vertragus type ? 



The deficiencies, if any, of his classical predecessors have been 

 judiciously and tastefully supplied by the elaborate pen of Bargaeus : 



Oppian. 



Cyneget. i, 

 vs. 401. 



1. Xenophon's foxite has small ears, (unless with Vlitius we read 5to fiaKph,) and 

 Arrian's Celt large, down-falliug ears, as if broken — small and stiff ones being deemed 

 a blemish in the greyhound. But iu other respects the ears of the Oppianic houud 

 closely resemble Arrian's type, and also Nemesian's — both confessedly Celtic. See 

 Arriau de Veaat. c. v. 7. aud Nemesiao. Cyneg. vs. 112« 



