CYNEGETICA, III. 314^339 



And there is one which beyond the snow-clad 

 heights of Taurus inhabits the Cihcian hills and cliffs 

 of Amanus," beautiful of aspect, most excellent among 

 beasts, which they call the Golden Wolf, brilliant 

 with abundant hair : no Wolf but a tall beast more 

 excellent than a Wolf, armed with mouth of bronze, 

 infinite in might. Many a time he pierces amain 

 the enduring bronze, many a time he pierces stone 

 or the iron spear. He knows the Dog-star Sirius 

 and dreads his rising ; straightway he creeps into 

 some cleft of the wide earth or into a lightless cave, 

 until the sun and the baleful Dog-star abate their 

 heat. 



Again there are two redoubtable'' Wolves, a deadly 

 race, small of neck, very broad of back, but less of 

 size in shaggy thighs and feet and face and small 

 of eye. Of these one is brilliant with silvery back 

 and white belly, and is dark only on the extremities 

 of his feet. This grey-haired Wolf some men have 

 named the Kite. But the other is dark of hue, 

 smaller than the former yet not wanting in strength. 

 He is a great hunter and makes Hares his prey, 

 leaping upon them while all the hair upon his limbs 

 bristles erect. 



Often "^ Wolves mate with the fierce Leopards, and 

 from the union springs the mighty tribe of Jackals.* 

 They wear two colours mingled together, the mother's 

 colour on the hide, the father's on the face. 



S-Kfiuw ... iffTi 8e /cat yei'Oi deroi'). Bodinus has rrudicori, 

 Peifer fortes. Morel infatigati, schoi. SwaToi. 

 ' ' Cf. C. i. 27 n. 



' The description of the tfwy here suits the Civet, Viverra 

 civetta (Ethiopian and Egyptian) and allied species, rather 

 than the Jackal, and according to some authorities the 0uk 

 of Aristotle is not the Jackal but the Civet. 



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