Note 299 — APPENDIX.
William Dansey translation
According to Manilius the power of fashioning implements of hunting, breeding dogs of good pedigrees, breaking them in, &c. is derived from sidereal influence at our nativities:
Manilii Astronomicon. L. v.
At Procyon oriens, quum jam vicesima Cancri Septimaque ex undis pars sese emergit in astra, Venatus non ille quidem, verum arma creatis Venandi tribuit: catulos nutrire sagaces, Et genus à proavis, mores numerare per artes, Retiaque, et validâ venabula cuspide fixa, Lentaque contextis formare hastilia nodis, Et quodcumque solet venandi poscere cura In proprios fabricare dabit venalia quæstus.