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kept on the Capitoline as guards for the Temple 

 of Jupiter, and it was told that while thefe raged 

 at everyone elfe who approached, they fuffered 

 Scipio Africanus to draw near unharmed night 

 after night when he was wont to enter the recefles 

 of the Temple, and confult there with Jupiter 

 on the deftinies of the State. Dog-men with dog- 

 like faces and barkings were fabled by the ancients 

 to refide in North Africa and alfo on the Indian 

 mountains, along with other monftrofities, fuch as 

 one-limbed men, men with their heads below their 

 moulders, and the like. 1 Many of thefe reappear 

 in the marvellous recitals told by the Mediasval 

 travellers. The Greek name for a helmet mows 

 what was the ultimate ufe of a dog, juft as we 

 have dogfkin gloves. Virgil does not forget to 

 recommend the dog to the care of huibandmen : 



" Nor laft, forget thy faithful dogs ; but feed 

 With fatt'ning whey the maftiff's generous breed, 

 And Spartan race ; who, for the fold's relief, 

 Will profecute with cries the nightly thief; 

 Repulfe the prowling wolf, and hold at bay 

 The mountain robbers, rufhing to the prey. 

 With cries of hounds thou may'ft purfue the fear 

 Of flying hares, and chafe the fallow-deer ; 

 Roufe from their defert dens the briftled rage 

 Of boars, and beamy stags in toils engage." 2 



As is his wont, ^Elian gives many ftories of 

 dogs and curious fcraps of folk-lore. They have 

 been known, he fays, actually to fall in love with 

 men ; their affection is extreme, fo when one 

 Nicias flipped into a furnace his dogs remained, 



1 Aul. Cell., vii. i, 8, and ix. 4, 9. 



2 Dryden, " Gcorg.," iii. 404. 



