Note 351 — CANES VENATICI. Class I.
William Dansey translation
De Nat. Anim. L. vii. c. xxxvii.
Οἱ Μαιάνδρῳ παροικοῦντες Μάγνητες. The same are mentioned by Ælian, in his work de Naturâ Animalium, in conjunction with the Hyrcanians, as being attended to battle by canine auxiliaries—καὶ ἦν καὶ τοῦτο συμμαχικὸν ἀγαθὸν αὐτοῖς καὶ ἐπικουρικόν. And Pliny, speaking of the Colophonii and Castabalenses, says they had Plin. L. viii. c. 40.“cohortes canum—fidissima auxilia, nec stipendiorum indigna.”
J. Darcii Venusini Canes.
His Colophoniacæ (si vera est fama) phalanges Auxiliis, hostem valido fregêre duello: Infaustoque olim cecidissent Caspia marte Agmina, ni tali defensa cohorte fuissent.