Crass I. Dy O53 Ga 
is a very different {pecies from the Agaffeus of Op- 
pian, for which it might be miftaken from the fi- 
militude of names: this he defcribes as a {mall kind 
of dog, peculiar to Great- Bria: and then foes 
on ith thefe words; 
Tupiv, aoaguoretov, AacloTeIXov, Oupaot vobes. 
Curvum, macilentum, hifpidum, oculis pigrum. 
what he adds afterwards, ftill marks the difference 
more itronely ; 
Piet 3? adte warise waveeouos eslv ayaoceus. 
Naribus autem longé preftantifimus eft agaffeus. 
From Oppian’s whole defcription, it is plain 
he meant our Beagle * 
The next kind is the Leporarius, or Gre-hound. 
‘Dr. Caius informs us, that it takes its name quod 
precipui gradus fit inter canes; the firft in rank 
among dogs: that it was formerly efteemed {o, 
appears from the foreft laws of king Canute; who 
enacted, that no one under the degree of a gentle- 
man fhould prefume to keep a gre-hound; and ftill 
more ftrongly from an old Welh faying, Wrth 
ei Walch, et Farch, @i Filgi, yr adwaenir Bonbed- 
dig: Which fignifies, that you may know a gentle- 
man by his hawk, his horfe and his gre-hound. 
* Opp. Cyneg. Ld. 1. lin. 473. 476. 
Nemefianus alfo celebrates our dogs. 
Divila Britanzia mittit 
Veloces, noftrique orbis venantibus aptos. 
Froif- 
