Note 309 — APPENDIX.
William Dansey translation
It is remarkable that this inventive genius is noticed by no other writer; high as his character stands with the Faliscian,
Gratii Cyneg. vs. 103.
haud illo quisquam se justior egit, Aut fuit in terris Divôm observantior alter:
unless indeed he be the sly coadjutor of Alebion, who with a thief cleped Dercylus (of a different caste seemingly from the Gratian hero) despoiled Hercules of his bovine booty during its transit through Iberia. See Natal. Comes, Mytholog. L. vii. Perhaps we may with Excursus ii. ad Gratii vs. 103.Wernsdorf consider him the first writer on the science and mechanism of the chase, rather than the actual inventor of its multifarious furniture: or if we cannot thus dispose of his claim to manual dexterity, may we not identify him with Aristæus, the Arcadian nephew of Diana,
Apollon. Argonaut. L. ii. 508.
ὃν καλέουσιν ἀγρέα καὶ νόμιον,
a sort of legendary Sir Tristrem in ancient matters of venery, and rural economy.