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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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