92 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 



which, putting to sea, means were found to destroy 

 them. 



The ancient Chaones, Lychaones, and, perhaps, 

 the Sacse,* seem to have taken their name from 

 dogs ; and probably they bore these animals, or their 

 skins, for banners. The Menapii had a dog in their 

 shields ; and the Tertio Decimanni (according to the 

 provincial canon from Constantine to Theodosius), 

 had the same emblem, painted yellow upon a Avhite 

 ground. In the Notitia Imperii, no less than ten 

 legions bore the effigies of dogs upon their shields. 



Among the Ptoembarii of Ethiopia, a living dog 

 was kept and worshipped as an inspired king,t 

 whose voice and actions were intei-preted by priests ! 

 The root Can, Khan, in its acceptation of power, is 

 evidently mixed up with the idea of a dog. We 

 find the Psalmist typifying, by the name of dogs, 

 hostile kings around him; and the prophets making 

 use of the term head, or chief dog. The word 

 Keleb, only marks that it is a foreign image trans- 

 lated into the language of the Hebrews. I\Iany 

 nations in central Asia, and tribes that emigrated 

 from thence, employed the large ferocious dogs 

 they had with them for the purposes of war. Some- 

 times forming their advancad, or first line, with 



* Saea), Saha, Saliia, of India ; Sak, ancient Persic, a doe ; 

 Gsach, Teutonic, power ; Chaeh, a king. The Median '2'ra>.a, 

 a dog, is only a mutation of Sak. 



t Pliny, Solinus, Plutarch, &c. Even in Britain, Cu, a 

 dog or a head, was thus dignified, as in Cunobelin : the head 

 king, the solar king, dog of the sun, the pendragon. 



