Note 278 — ARRIAN ON COURSING.
William Dansey translation
Καὶ γὰρ καὶ οἱ κύνες βλάπτονται, κ. τ. λ. All that Arrian here anticipates as a consequence of neglect of the rural deities, Savary of Caen, in bitterness of heart, invokes on the ill-fated heads of the brethren of the leash; whom he designates as enamoured of the savage pugnacity of the bull-dog greyhound—with which alone, the wolf-greyhound of his country, this poet was acquainted. Great as may have been his love of the harrier’s chase, and great his admiration of its followers, whom he calls Dian’s legitimate worshippers, I cannot conceive him conversant with the genuine pastime of his Celtic ancestry, nor with thec. xxxiii. κύων τῇ ἀληθείᾳ γενναῖος of Arrian, when he wrote the following virulent anathema:
Album Dianæ Leporicidæ. L. v.
Talia legitimos non infortunia tangant Cultores, Diana, tuos: inhonora Laconis Sed quoscunque juvat feritas truculenta Molossi, Sola quibus cædes, si qua est in cæde voluptas, Illorum paribus turbentur gaudia causis. Mulcta suppliciis cor insatiabile prædæ. Plecte viros, extingue canes, rabiemque ferocem Instilla, dominus catulis odiosus et ipsis, Exæquet falsum veris Actæona pœnis. Et qui participes (pigeat licet ista precari) Disrumpantur equi, domini plectantur in illis!