p. 1120. Also Pliny. l. 6. c. 30. and l. 7. c. 2. of Cunocephali in
Ethiopia and India.
[66] Herodot. l. 4. c. 191.
[67] Many places were named Cunocephale: all which will be found upon
inquiry to have been eminences, or buildings situated on high, agreeably to
this etymology. [Greek: Kunoskephale, LOPHOS tis Thessalias.] Stephanus
Byzant. from Polybius. l. 17.
[Greek: Kunonkephalai] near Scotiussa. [Greek: LOPHON puknon parallelon
AKRAI.] Plutarch in Flaminino, of the same place.
The citadel at Thebes was called [Greek: Kunoskephale] by Xenophon. Those
who speak of the Cunocephali as a people, describe them as Mountaineers.
Megasthenes per diversos Indiae montes esse scribit nationes caninis
capitibus. Solinus. c. 52.
A promontory of this name upon the coast of the Red Sea, mentioned above
from Strabo. Another promontory Cunocephale in Corcyra. Procopius. Goth. l.
3. c. 27.
[68] Solinus. c. 4. and Isidorus. Origi l. 9. de Portentis.
[69] Steph. Byzantinus.
[70] Ptolemy. l. 3. c. 15.
[71] Hesychius. Also a family at Lacedaemon, [Greek: Phule Lakonike]: and
Cunosouroi, the name of a family at Megara. See Alexander ab Alexandro. l.
1. c. 17.
[72]
Esse duas Arctos, quarum Cynosura petatur
Sidoniis; Helicen Graia carina notet. Ovid. Fastor. l. 3. v. 107.
[73] L. 3. p. 207.
[74] V. 99.
[75] Palaephatus [Greek: peri epheureseos konchules.]. p. 124.
[76] Cassiodorus of the purple. Cum fame canis avida in Tyrio littore
projecta conchylia impressis mandibulis contudisset, illa naturaliter
humorem sanguineum diffluentia ora ejus mirabili colore tinxerunt: et ut
est mos hominibus occasiones repentinas ad artes ducere, talia exempla
meditantes fecerunt principibus decus nobile. l. 9. c. 36.
See also Chronicon Paschale. p. 43. Achilles Tatius. l. 3. Julius Pollux.
l. 1. c. 4. p. 30. Ed. Amstel. Pliny. l. 9. c. 36.
[77] Cyrus Prodromus [Greek: epi apodemoi tei philiai].
[78] Nonni Dionysiaca. l. 40. p. 1034.
[79] Etymologicum Magnum.
[80] Johannes Antiochenus, who tells the story at large, says, that purple
was the discovery [Greek: kunos poimenikou] which in the original history
was undoubtedly a shepherd king.
[81] Plutarch. Isis et Osiris. p. 355.
[82] [Greek: Oude Sokrates ton kuna kai ton chena omnus epaizen.] Porphyry
de Abstinentia. l. 3. p. 286.
It is said to have been first instituted by Rhadamanthus of Crete: [Greek:
Ekeleuse (Rhadamanthus) kata chenos, kai kunos, k
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