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Diana in her usual hunting attire: Ancient gem of La Chausse. +Diana Cacciatrice.+ T. 61. p. 21. 49

+Ganymede.+ pierres gravées d’orléans. +Tome i.+ T. +xii.+ 50

Celtic greyhound: Brass coin of Cythnus. Goltzii N. G. Ins. T. +xviii.+ fol. +vii.+ 51

Celtic greyhound: Brass coin of Cythnus. Goltzii N. G. Ins. T. +xviii.+ fol. +viii.+ 54

Diana Venatrix: a beautiful Cameo of La Chausse. +Diana.+ T. 8. p. 4. 63

Equestrian Courser: Ancient gem of Maffei. Gemme Antiche. T. +iv.+ +Caccia.+ t. +lxxi.+ p. 116. 64

Celtic greyhound: Silver coin of Cythnus. Goltzii N. G. Ins. T. +xviii.+ fol. +ix.+ 65

Greyhound puppies—a groupe in white marble in the British Museum; from the ruins of Antoninus’s Villa at Monte Cagnolo 66

Celtic greyhound killing a hare: Ancient ring. Gorlæi Dactyliotheca. fol. 120. 67

+Diana Pergæa+: Silver coin of Perga in Pamphylia. Begeri Thesaur. Brandenb. T. +i.+ p. 506. 175

+Votum seu Donarium Dianæ Venatrici.+ In Hortis Mediceis. Admiranda Romanarum Antiquitatum ac Veteris Sculpturæ Vestigia, &c. à Petro Sancti Bartolo. Tab. 33. 176

Celtic greyhounds and deer from Vaillant. Montfaucon L’Antiq. Expliq. T. +iii.+ 177

Genii hunting from Maffei: Gemme Antiche. T. +iv.+ +Caccia di Genii.+ T. +liv.+ p. 86. 178

Diana Venatrix: Silver coin of Syracuse. Begeri Thesaur. Brandenb. T. +i.+ Numism. Siciliæ, p. 384. 179

Celtic greyhound: Silver coin of Cythnus. Goltzii N. G. Ins. T. +xviii.+ fol. +x.+ 306

+Funeralis Pompa.+ In Ædibus Barberinis. Admiranda Romanarum Antiquitatum ac Veteris Sculpturæ Vestigia, &c. à Petro Sancti Bartolo. Tab. 70. 307

Porter or Watch-dog—Canis Custos: Ancient gem of Maffei: Gemme Antiche. T. +iv.+ cane, t. +lxxxviii.+ p. 137. 315

BIBLIOTHECA CYNEGETICA.

Ὅτι μὲν οὖν καὶ ἑτέροις ὑπὲρ τούτων ἐσπούδασται, καλῶς οἶδα· ἐγὼ δὲ ἐμαυτῷ ταῦτα, ὅσα οἷον τε ἦν, ἀθροίσας, καὶ περιβαλὼν αὐτοῖς τὴν συνήθη λέξιν, κειμήλιον οὐκ ἀσπούδαστον ἐκπονῆσαι πεπίστευκα. Εἰ δέ τῳ καὶ ἄλλῳ φανεῖται ταῦτα λυσιτελῆ, χρήσθω αὐτοῖς· ὅτῳ δὲ οὐ φανεῖται, ἐάτω τῷ πατρὶ θάλπειν τε καὶ περιέπειν· οὐ γὰρ πάντα πᾶσι καλὰ, οὐδὲ ἄξια δοκεῖ σπουδάσαι πᾶσι πάντα.

+Ælian. de Natura Animalium, Præfat.+

For the amusement of such as may be desirous of consulting the Cynegetical works cited in the preceding annotations on Arrian and the Appendix, a list of their respective titles and editions is subjoined.

The author does not pretend to enumerate all the known editions of each Cynegeticon, but only those of his own library. Where two or more of the same work are mentioned, the copy made use of is either pointed out by specification, or the name of the editor and place of publication are printed in italics. In cases of disputed text, different editions have been collated, and the most approved readings selected for use.

Enrolled in the catalogue are a few treatises de re Venaticâ which the present writer has never seen. They are admitted on the authority of earlier compilers, in whose bibliothecæ they appear: but their importance to the θήρης κλυτὰ δήνεα (Oppian. Cyneg. +i.+ 16.) is assumed rather than established. Remoteness of residence from public libraries must plead for the author’s unavoidable ignorance. He could not certify by actual examination the admissibility of any book not on his own shelves. The works in question are distinguished by the prefixture of an asterisk.

A Bibliotheca Cynegetica upon the following plan was first attempted by Rittershusius in his Prolegomena to Oppian, imperfectly executed by Lallemant in his Bibliotheca Historica et Critica Thereuticographῶn, and subsequently, but still far short of perfection, by Belin de Ballu in his prefatory matter to the poet of Anazarbus. The latter’s catalogue professedly excludes all prosaic works, save those of the classic ages—departing from its rule in the solitary instance of Conrad Heresbach’s Compendium. Of the English Cynegetica, Somerville’s Chace is alone admitted, the doggrel of the Book of St. Alban’s possessing insufficient poetical pretensions, perhaps, in the eyes of a foreigner, to place Dame Juliana Berners, or the “one sumtyme scole mayster of seynt Albons,” or whoever be the author of these antique canons, amongst those “qui metricè hanc materiam persecuti sunt.” Proleg. in Oppian. p. +xvi.+ Ed. 4to.

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Xenophontis Opuscula Politica, Equestria, et Venatica, cum Arriani Libello De Venatione, &c. J. G. Schneider. Oxonii, +mdcccxvii.+

Xenophontis Scripta Minora, &c. L. Dindorf. Lipsiæ, +mdcccxxiv.+

On Hare Hunting, from Xenophon, by W. Blane, Esq. London, 1788.