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[Illustration: BARTOLI.]
DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES AND VIGNETTES.
+The+ Emperor Trajan with hunters and a Celtic greyhound: Medallion from the Arch of Constantine. _L’Antiquité Expliquée par Montfaucon._ Tom. +iii.+ Liv. +iv.+ Tab. 175. Frontispiece.
Apollo and Diana—Twin-deities of the Chace: Silver coin of Delos. _Goltzii Numism. Græc. Ins._ T. +xviii.+ fol. +iii.+ Title-page.
The Author’s greyhound—ἄῤῥην κύων τῇ ἀληθείᾳ γενναῖος. _Arrian. de Venat._ c. +xxxii.+ Dedication page.
Procris presenting Lælaps and the fatal dart to Cephalus. _Metamorphos. Ovid._ L. +xv.+ _Æneis formis ab Antonio Tempesta Florentino incisi._ Back of do.
Ancient implements of writing;—picture from Herculaneum. _Antiquités d’Herculanum gravées par F. A. David._ Pl. +xxxiv.+ p. 50. Page 1
Hunter bearing spoils of the Chace: Ancient gem. _Le Gemme Antiche figurate di Michel Angelo Causeo de la Chausse._ +Cacciatore.+ T. 135. p. 54. 48
+Diana Aricina seu Nemorensis+: Ancient gem. _Begeri Thesaur. Brandenb._ T. +i.+ _Gemmæ_ p. 64. 49
Diana in her usual hunting attire: Ancient gem of _La Chausse_. +Diana Cacciatrice.+ T. 61. p. 21. 49
+Ganymede.+ _pierres gravées d’orléans._ +Tome i.+ T. +xii.+ 50
Celtic greyhound: Brass coin of Cythnus. _Goltzii N. G. Ins._ T. +xviii.+ fol. +vii.+ 51
Celtic greyhound: Brass coin of Cythnus. _Goltzii N. G. Ins._ T. +xviii.+ fol. +viii.+ 54
Diana Venatrix: a beautiful Cameo of _La Chausse_. +Diana.+ T. 8. p. 4. 63
Equestrian Courser: Ancient gem of _Maffei_. _Gemme Antiche._ T. +iv.+ +Caccia.+ t. +lxxi.+ p. 116. 64
Celtic greyhound: Silver coin of Cythnus. _Goltzii N. G. Ins._ T. +xviii.+ fol. +ix.+ 65
Greyhound puppies—a groupe in white marble in the British Museum; from the ruins of Antoninus’s Villa at Monte Cagnolo 66
Celtic greyhound killing a hare: Ancient ring. _Gorlæi Dactyliotheca._ fol. 120. 67
+Diana Pergæa+: Silver coin of Perga in Pamphylia. _Begeri Thesaur. Brandenb._ T. +i.+ p. 506. 175
+Votum seu Donarium Dianæ Venatrici.+ In Hortis Mediceis. _Admiranda Romanarum Antiquitatum ac Veteris Sculpturæ Vestigia, &c. à Petro Sancti Bartolo._ Tab. 33. 176
Celtic greyhounds and deer from Vaillant. _Montfaucon L’Antiq. Expliq._ T. +iii.+ 177
Genii hunting from _Maffei: Gemme Antiche._ T. +iv.+ +Caccia di Genii.+ T. +liv.+ p. 86. 178
Diana Venatrix: Silver coin of Syracuse. _Begeri Thesaur. Brandenb._ T. +i.+ Numism. Siciliæ, p. 384. 179
Celtic greyhound: Silver coin of Cythnus. _Goltzii N. G. Ins._ T. +xviii.+ fol. +x.+ 306
+Funeralis Pompa.+ In Ædibus Barberinis. _Admiranda Romanarum Antiquitatum ac Veteris Sculpturæ Vestigia, &c. à Petro Sancti Bartolo._ Tab. 70. 307
Porter or Watch-dog—Canis Custos: Ancient gem of _Maffei: Gemme Antiche._ T. +iv.+ cane, t. +lxxxviii.+ p. 137. 315
[The Plates and Vignettes are executed by Messrs. Day and Haghe, Lithographers to the King, 17, Gate Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields.]
BIBLIOTHECA CYNEGETICA.
Ὅτι μὲν οὖν καὶ ἑτέροις ὑπὲρ τούτων ἐσπούδασται, καλῶς οἶδα· ἐγὼ δὲ ἐμαυτῷ ταῦτα, ὅσα οἷον τε ἦν, ἀθροίσας, καὶ περιβαλὼν αὐτοῖς τὴν συνήθη λέξιν, κειμήλιον οὐκ ἀσπούδαστον ἐκπονῆσαι πεπίστευκα. Εἰ δέ τῳ καὶ ἄλλῳ φανεῖται ταῦτα λυσιτελῆ, χρήσθω αὐτοῖς· ὅτῳ δὲ οὐ φανεῖται, ἐάτω τῷ πατρὶ θάλπειν τε καὶ περιέπειν· οὐ γὰρ πάντα πᾶσι καλὰ, οὐδὲ ἄξια δοκεῖ σπουδάσαι πᾶσι πάντα.
+Ælian. de Natura Animalium, Præfat.+
For the amusement of such as may be desirous of consulting the Cynegetical works cited in the preceding annotations on Arrian and the Appendix, a list of their respective titles and editions is subjoined.
The author does not pretend to enumerate all the known editions of each Cynegeticon, but only those of his own library. Where two or more of the same work are mentioned, the copy made use of is either pointed out by specification, or the name of the editor and place of publication are printed in italics. In cases of disputed text, different editions have been collated, and the most approved readings selected for use.
Enrolled in the catalogue are a few treatises _de re Venaticâ_ which the present writer has never seen. They are admitted on the authority of earlier compilers, in whose bibliothecæ they appear: but their importance to the θήρης κλυτὰ δήνεα (Oppian. Cyneg. +i.+ 16.) is assumed rather than established. Remoteness of residence from public libraries must plead for the author’s unavoidable ignorance. He could not certify by actual examination the admissibility of any book not on his own shelves. The works in question are distinguished by the prefixture of an asterisk.
A Bibliotheca Cynegetica upon the following plan was first attempted by Rittershusius in his _Prolegomena_ to Oppian, imperfectly executed by Lallemant in his _Bibliotheca Historica et Critica Thereuticographῶn_, and subsequently, but still far short of perfection, by Belin de Ballu in his prefatory matter to the poet of Anazarbus. The latter’s catalogue professedly excludes all prosaic works, save those of the classic ages—departing from its rule in the solitary instance of Conrad Heresbach’s Compendium. Of the English Cynegetica, Somerville’s Chace is alone admitted, the doggrel of the Book of St. Alban’s possessing insufficient poetical pretensions, perhaps, in the eyes of a foreigner, to place Dame Juliana Berners, or the “one sumtyme scole mayster of seynt Albons,” or whoever be the author of these antique canons, amongst those “qui _metricè_ hanc materiam persecuti sunt.” Proleg. in Oppian. p. +xvi.+ Ed. 4to.
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[Sidenote: +i.+ Xenophon.]
Xenophontis Opuscula Politica, Equestria, et Venatica, cum Arriani Libello De Venatione, &c. _J. G. Schneider. Oxonii_, +mdcccxvii.+
Xenophontis Scripta Minora, &c. L. Dindorf. Lipsiæ, +mdcccxxiv.+
On Hare Hunting, from Xenophon, by W. Blane, Esq. London, 1788.
[Sidenote: +ii.+ Gratius.]
Gratii, qui Augusto principe floruit, de Venatione Lib. i. This edition of the Faliscian is contained in the rare little Aldine volume, entitled Poetæ tres egregii, &c. Aldus, +mdxxxiiii.+ Republished by Sig. Feyerabendius, ad calcem Venatûs et Aucupii J. A. Loniceri. Francoforti, +mdlxxxii.+
Gratii Falisci Cynegeticon, &c. Th. Johnson, A.M. Londini, +mdcxcix.+
Poetæ Latini Rei Venaticæ Scriptores, &c. _G. Kempheri. Lugdun. Batav._ +mdccxxviii.+
Poetæ Latini Minores. J. C. Wernsdorf. Altenburgi, +mdcclxxx.+
A Poem of Hunting, by Gratius the Faliscian. Englished and Illustrated by Christopher Wase, Gent. London, 1654.
[Sidenote: +iii.+ Arrianus.]
Arrianus De Venatione, ex interpretatione L. Holstenii. Paris, +mdcxliv.+
Arriani Tactica, Peripli, Cynegeticus, et Epicteti Stoici Euchiridion, ex Recensione Nicolai Blancardi. Amstelodami, 1683.
[433]ΑΡΡΙΑΝΟΥ ΤΑ ΣΩΖΟΜΕΝΑ κ. τ. λ. Ἐπεξεργασθέντα καὶ Ἐκδοθέντα ὑπὸ ΝΕΟΦΥΤΟΥ ΔΟΥΚΑ εἰς τόμους ἑπτά. ΕΝ ΒΙΕΝΝΗι ΤΗΣ ΑΟΥΣΤΡΙΑΣ, 1809.
Xenophontis Opuscula Politica, &c. cum Arriani Libello de Venatione. _J. G. Schneider. Oxonii_, +mdcccxvii.+
[Sidenote: +iv.+ Pollux.]
Julii Pollucis Onomasticum. Hemsterhuis. Amst. +mdccvi.+ The fifth book, addressed to the Emperor Commodus, affords much valuable information on the technicalities of classical venation.
[Sidenote: +v.+ Oppianus.]
Oppiani Poetæ Cilicis De Venatione Lib. +iiii.+ &c. Conrad. Rittershusii. Lugduni Batav. +mdxcv.+
Oppiani Poetæ Cilicis De Venatione Libri +iv.+ &c. _Joh. Gottlob Schneider. Argentorati_, +mdcclxxvi.+
Oppiani Poema De Venatione, &c. Jac. Nic. Belin De Ballu. Argentor. 1786.
J. Brodæi Turonensis Annotationes in Oppiani Cyneg. L. +iiii.+ &c. Basileæ. +mdlii.+
Oppiani De Venatione Libri +iiii.+ Joan. Bodino interprete, &c. Lutetiæ, +mdlv.+
* The First Book of Oppian’s Cynegetics translated into English Verse, &c. by John Mawer, A.M. London, 1736.
[Sidenote: +vi.+ Nemesianus.]
M. Aurelii Olympii Nemesiani Cynegeticôn Lib. +i.+ Aldus, +mdxxxiiii.+ (The same Aldine volume as before referred to, entitled Poetæ tres egregii, &c.) Nemesian also occurs in the collections of Poetæ Venatici of Feyerabendius, Johnson, _Kempher_, and Wernsdorf.