Note 79 — ARRIAN ON COURSING.
William Dansey translation
Πολύφθογγος.
Martial. Issa Publii.
Hanc tu si queritur, loqui putabis. Sentit tristitiamque gaudiumque.
Did Hormé’s “verba canina” (Ovid, in Ibin) extend to the imitation of spoken language, as in the memorable case of M. Leibnitz’s dog, recorded by him (“témoin oculaire”) in the Hist. de l’Acad. Royale des Sciences, ann. 1715? or are we to understand that this most musical of hounds, Anyta Epidauria.φιλοφθόγγων ὠκυτάτη σκυλάκων, only “gave tongue,” like his congeners, with various intonations of bark?
Apollon. Rhod. L. iii. 1216.
ὀξειῇ ὑλακῇ χθόνιοι κύνες ἐφθέγγοντο—
making up by intelligence, and significancy of action, for deficiency of speech:
Nonni Dionysiac. L. xvi.
εἰσὶ καὶ ἐν σκυλάκεσσιν ἐχέφρονες, οἷσι Κρονίων ἀνδρομέην φρένα δῶκε καὶ οὐ βροτέην πόρε φωνήν.
Andreas Naugerius, Carm. v. Illustr. Poetar.
Nunc blandè assiliebat hùc et illùc Ludens, atque avido appetebat ore. Erectis modo cruribus, bipesque Mense adstabat herili, heroque ab ipso Latratu tenero cibum petebat.