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APPENDIX. 



Gloss. A roll, 

 p. 113. 



De bello 

 Gallico. 

 L. IV. 12. 



Symmaclii 



Epist. L. ri. 



Ep. 77. 



named from the countries in which the respective sorts most abound, 

 English, Scotch, and Irish greyhounds. Spelman, whose authority 

 is entitled to weight, in his remarks " De Canibus Veterum," speak- 

 ing of the " Leporarius levipes, qui ex visu praidara appetit arripit- 

 que, a greyhound, Ovidio Canis Gallicus," subjoins, " sed pro- 

 prie magis Britannicus ;" as if he deemed him of British origin,^ a 

 native of our isle, like the inhabitants of the interior mentioned by 

 Caesar, " quos natos in insult ips^, memori^ proditum dicunt ;" — but 

 he cites no testimony in support of his opinion. I do not believe 

 either of the three sub-varieties of the dog in question indigenous of 

 Great Britain ; but rather that all our insular sorts originally sprang 

 from the Celtic Vertragus : — the probability of which is supported 

 by the history of the distribution of the Celts themselves, and the 

 name under which the dogs were seut by Flavian to his brother 



F. Junii 

 Etymolog. 

 Anglican. 

 Etymolog. 

 Anglican. 



grei, caesius, leucophasus, canus. A, S. grcrg ; which last, says Junius, might be 

 referred " ad colorem Greecis yepdvetov gruinum dictum ; propterea quod Threiciam. 

 gruem siniulet vel imitetur, ut loquitur Ovidius," &c. — " Quid si deflecterem gray," 

 says Skinner, " a nom. Grcecus, q. d. color Greecus, ut color Baeticus ab Hispania 

 Bastic^, &c. Teut. Gruw." — The varieties of the grey colour, of which Werner's 

 nomenclature of colours gives us between twenty and thirty shades suited to our pur- 

 pose, predominate in the greyhound tribe, and more especially the bluish-grey and 

 blackish-grey, (almost peculiar to this race and the great Danish dog of Buffon,) and 

 all the dingy tints which under the epithet dun are found to prevail. Indeed it has 

 been suggested that the line of Gratius, " Et pictara macuM Vertraham delige 

 fals&," may allude to the doubtful tint of colour, denominated grey, (compounded of 

 two colours variously commixed in the Vertraha). — " Videntur Angli canes hos 

 grnt/hounds vocare," says Vlitius, " id est subfuscos, vel nigro et albo mixtos quod 

 nos graw dicimus." 

 Description of 1. '< The Greihounde of King Cranthlynth's dayes," says Holinshed, " was not 

 Irelande, p. 8. fetched so far as out of Grecia, but rather bred in Scotland." 



From Hector Boethius it is clear that the Canes Scotici (qu. Canes Celtici) were 

 superior to the native dogs of the isle : " Ut Picti suos canes Scoticis, pulchritu- 

 dine, velocitate, laburis patientia, simul atque audacia longe inferiores animadvertis- 

 sent : hujusmodi generis canum cupidi, ut penes se essent, e quibus nascerentur, 

 quosdam utriusque sexus a Scotis nobilibus dono accepere : alios finite venatu, rege 

 abeunte in Atholiam, a custodibus clam abstraxere, et inter eos venaticum quendam 

 candore nivali, eximia pernicitate, formS. eleganti, audentiaque supra, communem 

 canum facultatera, quern Crathlintus habuit in deliciis, insignera," &c. See also 

 Fordun. Scotichron. L. ii. c, xlii. (Regnanie Diocletiano). 



Venatio 

 Novaiiiiqua. 



