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Ille feras, ne tanta olim sublata periret 

 Aiit morte, aut sterili mox accedente senect&, 

 Et caderet simul extincto cum Lselape virtus : 

 Subjecitque canem, sobolemque e matre recepit 

 Optalam, Cretseque ultro concessit habendam. 



Inde autem vobis auct^ jam prole nepotes 

 AUatosGraiffi primum accepislis Amyclas, 

 Tempore quo gemini fidissima pectora fratres 

 Nunc lepores canibus, cursu nunc dorcadas acreis, 

 Et nunc Tsenario cervas in littore agebant ; 

 iEripedes cervas, quibus baud velocior unquara 

 Evolat JEoliis aquilo dimissus ab antris. 

 Nee fuit ipsa diu tarn magni rauneris expers 

 Epirus. Miscere genus monstravit : at oUis 

 Ingentes animi, solersque industria crevit. 



Arrian, from whose Manual of Coursing I purposely abstain to 



quote at length, because the reader can refer to my translation with 



De Venatione. little trouble, calls the greyhound by the barbarous title of ovep- 



rpayos kvuiv,^ expressly stating that he is so denominated in the Celtic 



H. Stepbani !• The etymology of tbis harsh-sounding terra is more readily elucidated by 



Scliediasm. tracing it in the Celtic, than in the Latin language ; from the latter of which Henry 

 * ^^* * Stephens, on the authority of Turnebus, attempts a fanciful derivation. " Vertragus — 



Fertragus — Ferlrahus — ex eo nimirum quod feram trahat ad dominum, litera g lo- 

 cum litersB h accipiente, sicut tragulam nomen j\ trahendo habere grammatici affir- 

 mant." He does not, however, attach much faith to the derivation, though favoured 

 by Martial's Epigram, 



Martial. Epig. 'Non sibi sed domino venatur Vertragus acer, 



* ^ * * IllEesura leporem qui tibi dente feret ; 



Adr. Turnebi and Turnebus himself, when proposing it, says " Scio ego jocularem istam visum iri 



Adversar. audaciam, et risus excitaturam." Ridiculous enough assuredly it is ! The greyhoulid 



very rarely brings the hare to his keeper, often devours it — besides, the bearing of 



his game to his master is not peculiar to this dog, Oppian mentioning the same 



quality in the 'Ayaixffevs — 



Cyneg. L. i. Koi 'yevvaraiv k\(iiv ^SpTov ixiyav avTidcrmv , 



vs. aH. g^£, <p4poi fj-oytoiv re, ySapuffJ/xecos re ireXd^ui. 



Seeing that this derivation could not be upheld, young Gerard Vossius endeavours 

 to adapt his etymology to the little light which Arrian himself throws upon the name, 

 deriving it from veertigh or veerdigh, nimble. But we shall approach nearer to the 



