Note 322 — APPENDIX.
William Dansey translation
The same threefold division runs through many of the modern semi-classical Cynegetica—being founded, as of course it is, in the essential qualities of the canine race:
Joan. Darcii Venusini Canes.
Nunc age quis villæ melior, gregibusque tuendis; Quæ volucri soboles cursu, nasove sagaci Sit potior; nec enim solers dedit omnibus unum Natura ingenium.
Ulysses Aldrovandus, in the section of his elaborate work which treats of the canine race, uses the very words of Seneca before cited, to mark theDe Quad. Digit. Vivip. L. iii. “tres præcipuæ canibus venaticis proprietates—sagacitas, cursus, audacia.”
Vanierii Præd. Rust. L. iv.
Sed non una canum species: pars nata domorum Excubiis, gressum et mensam sectatur herilem: Venandi studiosa feras pars alite cursu Insequitur, vel nare sagax vestigat odorâ.