Note 353 — CANES VENATICI. Class I.

For a fine representation of the Canis Molossus Venaticus, see De la Chausse, Museum Romanum, Tab. lxiv. and Montfaucon Antiquité expliquée, Chasse au Sanglier, Tom. iii. pl. 179. Several hunters are returning from the chase with the Magister Venationis, bearing in his hand a shield;—a cart drawn by oxen conveys a dead boar, on which lies a huge dog apparently killed in the fray, and by the side walks a second hound of the type alluded to. See also the Venationes Ferarum of Stradanus and Galle, plate viii. and the Genii hunting, from Maffei, at the beginning of this Appendix, where a Molossian-like hound is on the point of seizing a wild boar.