Note 398 — CANES VENATICI. Class II.
William Dansey translation
I am happy to refer to the Historian of Manchester, in corroboration of this opinion. Skinner derives the name of the Talbot from the position of his tail—Etymolog. Ling. Anglic.“Canis caudâ reflexâ præditus, credo ab A. S. Tægl, nobis Tail, cauda, et Butan extrà, ultrà, foràs!”