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coursing is sketched to tlio life in the well-known, and often-cited 

 simile ; 



Ui canis in vacuo leporem cum Gallicus arvo 

 Viiiit ; et hie prsedam pedibus petit, ille salutem : 

 Alter inhajsuro similis, jam jamiiue tenere 

 Sperat, et extento stringit vestigia rostro ; 

 Alter in ambiguo est, an sit deprensus, et ipsis 

 IMorsibus eripitur; tangentiaque ora relinquit. 



As when th' impatient greyhound, slipp'd from far, 

 Bounds o'er the glebe to course the fearful hare, 

 She in her speed does all her safetj lay. 

 And he with double speed pursues the prey; 



Ovid. Metam. 

 L. I. vs. 533. 



Dry den's 



Ovid's Metara. 



B. I. 



for the Vatican Museum. Of an earlier date, however, than these most interesting 

 groupes, is the medallion selected as the frontispiece of the present work. For 

 although the triumphal arch, whence it it was originally copied, was not erected till 

 about A. D. 300. that arch was a piece of architectural patch-work, made up of the 

 spoils of earlier structures — its medallions and principal ornaments being derived from 

 one 200 years older, commeraorative of Trajan's victories over the Dacians and Par- 

 thians, — amongst the former of whom, on the authority of Arrian, deer-coursing was 

 ao established sport in the beginning of the second century. About the latter period, 

 or at the very close of the first century, the medallion of the frontispiece was probably 

 wrought ; whereas the Monte Cagnolo groupes, if executed expressly for the decora- 

 tion of Antoninus's villa, were half a century later. 



I know of few other authentic representations of the oviprpayos Kvoiv , — unless the 

 varying type of Dian's canine attendant, on antique gems, lamps, coins, relievos, 

 &c. (the most beautiful o^whicii is on the Sicilian coins of Augustus Cajsar); 



— — KVUV 



'ApT€/xt5os, 7]T(ST6 0oT)s 2x6 iroMffiTai iyptis, 



'l^ei 6i}p-l]Teipa Trap' txviaiv, ovara 5' avrrj^ 



dp6a iJ.d\\ altu krotixa Oe^s i;7ro5e'x0at 6^oKXi)v . .. 



JMorell. T. xv. 

 20. 21. &c. 



Callimach. 

 II. iu Delum. 



vs. 228. 



approach, in any instance, near enougli to the courser's hound to be deemed a like- 

 ness — sometimes a beagle, sometimes a foxite, at other times a greyhound, let the 

 reader compare the outlines of Beger and La Chausse, seemingly of the Celtic type, 

 with the lop-eared harrier of Visconti and Guattani, (^Dlana ed Ecate combatlono coi Museo Chiara 

 Giganti,) and the prick-eared lurcher of the same authors, {Diana ed Apollo,) and 

 then decide on the admissibility of the effigy in this place. 



To the medallion of Vaillant, of small dimensions, but of singular beauty, exhibiting Goltzii Numis 

 a brace of greyhounds in the act of seizing a deer — copied here in outline as a vignette 

 — may be added four impressions of the same hound, in four different attitudes, most 

 elegant and characleristic, on coins or medals of the isle of Cythnus, one of the Cy- 

 clades; and a stag pursued by a greyhound, in Recueil d'Antiquites, Tom. i. p. 219. 



2 o 



monti. T. xvii. 

 T. xviii. 



mata Grsciae. 



T. xviii. 

 f. 7. 8. 9. 10. 



