L. I. 27. 



304 APPENDrx. 



Synopsis Qf j^^y ; — " qui aspectu feras venatur, cursu velocissiraus, form^ 



Animaliiim. "^ ' ' 



corporis et incessu decorus ;" ^ — a definition strictly harmonizing with 

 Arrian's more copious description, in c. ill. c. viii. sub fine, and 

 other parts of his manual. The genuine quarry of this hound is the 

 little fugacious hare ; of which the historian of the Celtic chase 

 Arrian. de supplies us with many illustrative anecdotes. That such was " the 

 c. XV. XVI XVII. startled quarry" whereat " the gallant greyhounds," Horme, Bon- 

 nas, Cirras,2 were wont to " strain," over the champaign fields of 



might be produced between the Irish greyhound and blood-hound,) nor do the classic 

 ages afford any counterpart to it. 

 Hor. Od. I. For Dacier's explanation of the '' catuli fideles" of Horace — " seu visa est catulis 



cerva fidelibus " — as des cliiens qui suivent bien la bete, qui ne prennent jamais le 

 change, so readily acceded to by the Delphin annotator, as portraying the English 

 gazehound, is far too fanciful to establish a race of these " chasseurs u vue " in an- 

 cient Italy. Horace merely gives sagacity and steadiness to deer-hounds, or possibly 

 the negative quality of not opening in pursuit of their game. 



1. To this definition Ray subjoins, " nonnullis Scoticus," as if he considered the 

 Scotch greyhound of the same type — that there was, in short, only one variety — the 

 English and Scotch being identical. The additional words would of course include 

 the supplementary hound of Gesner's Appendix, and probably were added with 

 that intent. 



Arrian's work was unknown to the great German naturalist — not having been dis- 

 covered in the Vatican library, when he compiled his celebrated Historia Animalium, 

 nor indeed till a century later. That Ray, too, was unacquainted with the Greek 

 Manual, seems equally clear. Thence the strong points of resemblance in the ancient 

 and modern descriptions of a dog, hypothetically the same, impart the more interest, 

 and obtain the more credence, from the impossibility of a collusive adaptation of the 

 one to the other, and from both portraits corresponding with the images of the Celtic 

 hound, which have come down to us on ancient monuments, the Arch of Constantine, 

 gems, numismata, &c. &c. 



2. See Arrian. de Venatione, c. xviir. eSye S> Kippa., evye Si B6vva, kuXms ye S> 

 'Opfiij. These we may suppose to have been some of the names of the favourite 

 archetypes of the Celtic kennel ; but of the particular scene of their exertions we 

 have- no evidence to adduce. Born at Nicoraedia, and occupied for the most part 

 with civil and military engagements in the East, at a distance from Celtica, properly 

 so called, (within the boundaries of the Pyrenees, the Alps, the Rhine, and the 

 Ocean,) we know not when or where Arrian became acquainted with the Vertragus. 

 Was the hound existing in Asia INlinor in the second century, seeing that he is no- 

 ticed at a later period by the Greek poet of Cilicia, and the Platonic philosopher of 

 Paphlagonia ? The Celts themselves are found tliere, as colonists, at an early date — 

 even in the very district of which Nicomedia was the metropolis. Stephanus of 



