38 THE GREYHOUND. 



the opinion that it is not merely our own sense of smell 

 greatly magnified, but one essentially different. 



Xenophon, who died at Corinth 395 B.C., at the age of 

 ninety years, wrote a treatise on hunting, the modes of 

 setting snares and nets; the natural history, food, and 

 habits of the hare; how to search for it; and what dogs 

 were clever at scenting, and what faulty ; as well as 

 showing how, by stratagem, the fierce animals of the 

 chase the boar, bear, and lion might be taken. Hare- 

 hunting by dogs running the hare or stag down by fleet- 

 ness of foot and keenness of sight was unknown to him, 

 the Greyhound, which was a dog peculiar to the Celts of 

 Gaul and Britain, not having been imported to Italy and 

 Greece till some centuries after Xenophon' s time. Nothing 

 in history is much clearer than this fact, and it fully dis- 

 poses of the specific name of Grcecus being used to 

 designate the Greyhound, as indicating for him a Greek 

 origin. 



Arrian, who was born at the end of the first or very 

 early in the second century, for he was made a citizen 

 of Rome by the Emperor in 124 A.D., and consequently 

 lived about 500 years later than Xenophon, was a master 

 of the art of hunting in all its then known branches, 

 and well acquainted with the cynegetica of Xenophon, 

 and he took up the subject, adopting the name of his 

 predecessor, and filled up or completed his work by a 

 treatise on coursing with Celtic Greyhounds, which had 

 in the meantime been introduced to Italy and Greece. 



In Dansey's translation of this treatise the ignorance 

 of the elder Xenophon of dogs of our Greyhound type, 

 and the thorough knowledge of them possessed by Arrian 



