APPENDIX. 



291 



Venatrix, whose characteristic attributes, pathetically written on a 

 nionumontal stone by an unknown hand, but at once aj)plied by us 

 to the Celtic type, exemplify in the entombed a few of the anecdotes 

 of Arrian's Horme : 



Epitaphium Canis Venatricis. 



Gallia me genuit, nomen mihi divitis undae 



Conclia dedit, formw noniinis aptus honos» 

 Docta perincertas audax discurrere silvas, 



Collibus hirsutas atque agitare feras. 

 Non gravibus vinclis unquam consueta teneri, 



Verbcra nee niveo corpore sasva pati. 

 IMoUi namque sinu dumiui dorninajque jacebam, 



Et noram in strato lassa cubare toro. 

 Et plus, quam licuit muto, canis ore loquebar, ^ 



Nulii latratus pertirauere meos. 

 Et jam fata subi, partu jactata sinistro, 



Quam nunc sub parvo marmore terra teget. 



The early history of the greyhound is confounded with the Epi- 

 rote, as if they had a common lineage — a mistake which has arisen 

 from their being considered equally of Grecian origin — whereas the 

 greyhound has no connexion with ancient Greece. Fable, however, 

 assigns them a common descent from the L^laps of Boeotia,i — from 

 whom also sprung other dogs of classic fame. The history of this 

 celebrated hound, and the lineage and geographical distribution of 

 his descendants, are particularized in the Cynegeticon of Bargaeus : 



Ilium autem specie, preestantem animisque saperbum 

 Cynthia dilectee dederat pro munere Nympba: 

 Ipsaque mox juveni JEoMdss : genialia postquain 

 Fulcra tori, et dulceis iterum conjunxit amores, 

 Jucundumque sinu fovit coraplexa niaritum. 

 Cujus ope innunieras sylvis praedatus, et agris 



Poeta; Latini 



Minores. 



Wernsdorf. 



Tom. 1. p. 121. 



P. A. Bargiei 

 Cyneget. L. v. 



1. " The first greyhound," says Topsel, (translating what Pollux had related of the History of Four- 



Molossian,) " was that of Cephalus, fashioned by Vulcan in Monesian brass, and f"Otea Beasts, 



when he liked his proportion, he also quickened him with a soul, and gave hira to Ju- f. } , 



piter for a gift, who gave him away again to Europa, she also to JNIinos, Minos to Pro- others, p. 115. 

 cris, and Procris to Cephalus, 6cc. 



