N ORIGIN OF THE DOG. 



My reason for holding the idea that Eton- simply meant the 

 holy animal is because the word is plainly of Greek derivation. 

 Strabo states Praeneste claimed a Greek origin, although 

 afterwards colonized by Alba. Scylla beautified its oracular 

 temple of fortune (a goddess that ever favoured him) and 

 Pliny says the first mosaic pavement introduced into Italy 

 was made by the command of that General. Eioir seems 

 nearly allied to o-tos which was the Laconic for Oeos or Zeus. 

 FT; rco crico. By the two gods viz. Castor and Pollux Arist 214. 

 Ocrios adjective meaning holy, and we see the Egyptian Sirius 

 was contracted and written by the Greeks Osiris. I may also 

 suggest Hois being the Greek word for a sculptor's chisel from 

 the theme Hew to scrape or carve stone. Hotr may have been 

 a name applied to the wolf, owing to its rasping and scraping 

 habits. 



The Dog, the Sanscrit Cvan, the Hebrew Cheleb, and 

 Arabic. Kilb was held in contempt by the Jews on account of 

 the veneration the Eg}^ptians paid to the animal as the 

 emblem of the God Anubis. 



Turning to the Greeks we find the dog termed KVWV (Kuon) 

 the o being pronounced long, and the pronunciation of the 

 word is very similar in sound to the howl of the domestic dog, 

 and it is curiously suggestive of the truth of the Biblical 

 account (Genesis ii.-2o) that Adam named the various animals; 

 that their primary names as far as traceable (although often 

 strangely corrupted by use through long ages and found under 

 various forms) seem in nearly every instance to have been 

 accorded generally from the voice or cry of each animal, or 

 else from their habit or some striking characteristic showing 

 thereby an unmistakeable oneness of original idea in denom- 

 inating them. 



