Note 410 — CANES VENATICI. Class III.
William Dansey translation
This property, I allow, is impaired in certain modern individuals of the Celtic family, hereafter mentioned, in whom the admixture of nasal sagacity indicates impurity of blood, and degeneracy from the parent stock. The lines of Gratius, descriptive of the greyhound’s speed, and keenness of vision, have been already cited under the Sagacious class: Englished by Wase, (totidem versibus, the good man’s only poetical merit) they run thus:
A Poem of Hunting, &c. Englished by C. Wase, Gent. 1654.
— chuse the grayhound py’d with black and white, He runs more swift then thought or winged flight; But courseth yet in view, not hunts in traile, In which the quick Petronians never faile.